Jamaica : agricultural price and trade policies (English)

Over the 1970s the Jamaican economy, including the agricultural sector, performed abysmally. Although many factors external to agriculture contributed to this poor performance, changes in the existing policy could revitalize the sector. The major finding of this study is that the dismal performance of export agriculture has been caused by movements of intrasectoral prices in favor of domestic agriculture. Two factors explain this: (i) implicit taxation...

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Bale,Malcolm D.;
Document Date
1983/05/31
Document Type
Departmental Working Paper
Report Number
CPD8306
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
Jamaica,
Region
Latin America and Caribbean,
Disclosure Date
2017/11/19
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
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Jamaica : agricultural price and trade policies
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Bale,Malcolm D..

Jamaica : agricultural price and trade policies (English). Country Policy Department discussion paper|no. CPD 8306 Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/860571492130747683

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