Beginning with the World Trade Organization's (WTO's) Doha development agenda and establishment of the millennium development goal of reducing poverty by 50 percent by 2015, poverty impacts of trade reforms...
This paper analyzes the economic effects of agricultural price and merchandise trade policies around the world as of 2004 on global markets, net farm incomes, and national and regional economic welfare...
The volume on agricultural price distortions, inequality and poverty begins with a global study that uses the World Bank's linkage model to examine the economic impacts in various countries, regions and...
This paper summarizes a new database that sheds light on the impact of trade-related policy developments over the past half century on distortions to agricultural incentives and thus also to consumer prices...
The regional books that provided detailed estimates of distortion in developing economies are all country focused. While they include commodity details for their particular country, they are not able to...
Earnings from farming in many developing countries have been depressed by a pro-urban bias in own-country policies as well as by Governments of richer countries favoring their farmers with import barriers...
This working paper summarizes the annual estimates, for each of the world's main high-income countries, of key distortion indicators defined in Anderson et al. (2008), and provides some summary statistics...
This working paper summarizes annual estimates of covered product Nominal Rate of Assistance (NRAs), for each of the focus economies of Europe's transition economies, their key distortion indicators defined...
Notwithstanding the tariffication component of the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture, import tariffs on farm products continue to provide an incomplete indication of the extent to which agricultural...
This paper outlines the methodological issues associated with the task of measuring that actual delivered direct protection or taxation to individual agricultural industries, as well as the direct protection...
Ecuador is a lower-middle-income economy with about 45 percent of its export coming from primary and processed agricultural products. Until the 1970s agriculture was an even more important generator of...
This compilation of data from the World Development Indicators, Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) STAT, and Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) 6.0 databases provide comparative basic economic...
This compilation summarizes the estimates, for the focus countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, of key distortion indicators. Three tables are provided for each country: (a) the Nominal Rate of...
Ecuador is a lower-middle-income economy with about 45 percent of its export coming from primary and processed agricultural products. Until the 1970s agriculture was an even more important generator of...
This compilation of data from the World development indicators, and Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) 6.0 databases provides comparative basic economic and trade indicators for the Africa region. Within...
This report provides comparative basic economic and trade indicators for Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region. Within the region countries are sub-divided into sub-regions, and for each region and...
This compilation summarizes the estimates for the focus countries of Asia key distortion indicators defined in Anderson et al. (2008). Three tables are provided for each country: (a) the Nominal Rate of...
This working paper summarizes the annual estimates of covered product Nominal Rate of Assistance (NRA), for each of the focus countries, of Africa key distortion indicators defined in Anderson et al, and...
This compilation of data from the World Development Indicators, Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) 6.0 databases provides comparative basic economic and trade indicators for Asia region. Within the region...
This compilation of data from the World Development Indicators (WDI), and Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) 6.0 databases provides comparative basic economic and trade indicators for high income countries...