Documents & Reports
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Distortions to agricultural incentives in Western Europe (Vol. 6 of 16) : National spreadsheet for agricultural distortions in Germany (English)
Agriculture in Western Europe enjoys a degree of diversity that reflects a wide variety of soils and climatic conditions ranging from the arid Mediterranean regions to the Arctic Circle. Superimposed on...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 56143 Document Date: September 1, 2010 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Josling,Timothy E.
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Krueger/Schiff/Valdes revisited : agricultural price and trade policy reform in developing countries since 1960 (English)
A study of distortions to agricultural incentives in 18 developing countries during 1960-84, by Krueger, Schiff and Valdes (1988; 1991), found that policies in most of those developing countries were directly...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS5165 Document Date: January 1, 2010 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Anderson,Kym
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Agricultural price distortions, inequality, and poverty : introduction and summary (English)
Reforms in recent decades have sharply reduced the distortions affecting agriculture in developing countries, particularly by cuts to agricultural export taxes and by some reductions in government assistance...
Report No.: 55933 Document Date: August 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Anderson,Kym,Cockburn,John Murray,Martin, Will
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Agricultural trade reform and poverty in Thailand : a general equilibrium analysis (English)
A general equilibrium modeling approach is used to estimate the effects within Thailand of unilateral and global trade liberalization, including effects on poverty incidence. It is concluded that across...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 55941 Document Date: June 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Warr,Peter George
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Impacts of trade liberalization on poverty and inequality in Argentina (English)
Using the most recent estimates of agricultural price distortions, this chapter studies the economic, poverty, and income inequality impacts of both global and domestic trade reform in Argentina, with...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 55944 Document Date: June 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Cicowiez,Martin,Diaz-Bonilla,Carolina,Diaz-Bonilla, Eugenio
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Economic and poverty impacts of agricultural, trade, and factor market reforms in China (English)
Capitalizing on the most recent estimates of agricultural price distortions in China and in other countries, this paper assesses the economic and poverty impact of global and domestic trade reform in China...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 55937 Document Date: June 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Hertel,Thomas W.,Zhai,Fan
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Border price and export demand shocks for developing countries from rest-of-world trade liberalization using the linkage model (English)
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...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 55948 Document Date: June 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Van Der Mensbrugghe,Dominique,Valenzuela,Ernesto,Anderson,Kym
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Welfare and poverty effects of global agricultural and trade policies using the Linkage model (English)
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...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 55934 Document Date: June 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Anderson,Kym,Valenzuela,Ernesto,Van Der Mensbrugghe,Dominique
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Would trade liberalization help the poor of Brazil? (English)
This paper addresses the potential effects of world agricultural trade liberalization on poverty and regional income distribution in Brazil, using an inter-regional applied general equilibrium (AGE) and...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 55946 Document Date: June 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ferreira Filho,Joaquim Bento De Souza,Horridge,Jonathan Mark
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Agricultural protection and poverty in Indonesia : a general equilibrium analysis (English)
A general equilibrium modeling approach is used to estimate the effects within Indonesia of unilateral and global trade liberalization, including effects on poverty incidence. It is concluded that global...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 55938 Document Date: June 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Warr,Peter George
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Liberalizing trade, and its impact on poverty and inequality in Nicaragua (English)
The Doha round of multilateral trade negotiations stalled in 2008 owing in no small degree to a lack of agreement on the terms of substantially reducing trade-distorting support for agricultural products...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 55947 Document Date: June 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Sanchez, Marco V.,Vos,Robert
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Global poverty and distributional impacts of agricultural distortions (English)
This paper assesses the potential impacts of the removal of agricultural and other trade distortions using a newly developed dataset and methodological approach for evaluating the global poverty and inequality...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 55935 Document Date: June 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Bussolo,Maurizio,De Hoyos Navarro,Rafael E.,Medvedev,Denis
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Agricultural price distortions, poverty, and inequality in the Philippines (English)
This paper analyzes the poverty and inequality implications of removing agricultural and non-agricultural price distortions in the domestic market of the Philippines and abroad. Liberalization in the rest...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 55940 Document Date: June 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Cororaton,Caesar B.,Corong,Erwin Lucban,Cockburn,John Murray
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Agricultural distortions, poverty, and inequality in South Africa (English)
South Africa has rapidly reduced trade barriers since the end of Apartheid, yet agricultural production and exports have remained sluggish. Also, poverty and unemployment have risen and become increasingly...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 55943 Document Date: June 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Herault,Nicolas J.,Thurlow, James
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The poverty impacts of global commodity trade liberalization (English)
This paper examines the poverty impacts of global merchandise trade reform by looking at a wide range of developing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Overall, the authors find that trade reform...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 55936 Document Date: June 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Hertel,Thomas W.,Keeney,Roman Michael
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Inequality and poverty impacts of trade distortions in Mozambique (English)
Although Mozambique has considerable agricultural potential, rural poverty remains extremely high. This paper examines the extent to which global and domestic price distortions affect agricultural production...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 55942 Document Date: June 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Arndt,Channing,Thurlow, James
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Poverty implications of agricultural and non-agricultural price distortions in Pakistan (English)
Using recent estimates of industry assistance rates, the effects of trade liberalization in the rest of the world and in Pakistan alone are analyzed using a global and a Pakistan computable general equilibrium...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 55939 Document Date: June 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Cororaton,Caesar B.,Orden,David R.
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Political economy of Anglo-French trade, 1689-1899 : agricultural trade policies, alcohol taxes, and war (English)
Britain contrary to received wisdom was not a free trader for most of the 1800s and, despite repeal of the Corn Laws, continued to have higher tariffs than the French until the last quarter of the century...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 55953 Document Date: May 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Nye,John Vincent Canizares
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Political economy of agricultural distortions : the literature to date (English)
The 1980s and first half of the 1990s were a very active period in the field of political economy of agricultural protection. While the past decade has witnessed a slowdown in this area, there have been...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 55951 Document Date: May 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Swinnen,Johan F. M.
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Special interests versus the public interest in policy determination (English)
This paper focuses on recent theoretical developments in political economy and what role they might play in explaining and reforming individual country and global distortions in food and agricultural markets...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 55952 Document Date: May 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Rausser, Gordon C.,Roland,Gerard