Why governments tax or subsidize trade : evidence from agriculture (English)

This paper empirically explores the political-economic determinants of why governments choose to tax or subsidize trade in agriculture. The authors use a new data set on nominal rates of assistance (NRA) across a number of commodities spanning the last five decades for 64 countries. NRAs measure the effect on domestic (relative to world) price of the quantitative and price-based instruments used to regulate agricultural markets. The data set admits...

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Gawande,Kishore;

Hoekman,Bernard M.;
Document Date
2009/05/01
Document Type
Working Paper (Numbered Series)
Report Number
55958
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
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World,
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Other,
Disclosure Date
2010/08/05
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
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Why governments tax or subsidize trade : evidence from agriculture
Keywords
Agriculture

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Gawande,Kishore; Hoekman,Bernard M..

Why governments tax or subsidize trade : evidence from agriculture (English). Agricultural Distortions working paper ; no. 85 Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/393041468152708786

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