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1 online resource (718 pages)
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9780821376645
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Comprehensive empirical studies of the disarray in world agricultural markets appeared approximately 20 years ago. Since then, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has provided estimates each year of market distortions in high-income countries, but there have been no comparable estimates for the world's developing countries. This volume is the third in a series that not only fills that void for recent years but extends the estimates in a consistent and comparable way back in time's and provides analytical narratives for scores of countries that shed light on the evolving nature and extent of policy interventions over the past half-century. This title provides an overview of the evolution of distortions to agricultural incentives caused by price and trade policies in the Arab Republic of Egypt plus 20 countries that account for about of 90 percent of Sub-Saharan Africa's population, farm households, agricultural output, and overall GDP. Sectoral, trade, and exchange rate policies in the region have changed greatly since the 1950s, and there have been substantial reforms since the 1980s. Nonetheless, numerous price distortions in this region remain, others have been added in recent years, and there has also been some backsliding, such as in Zimbabwe. The new empirical indicators in these country studies provide a strong evidence based foundation for assessing the successes and failures of the past and for evaluating policy options for the years ahead.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Dedication -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Abbreviations -- PART 1 Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 Introduction and Summary -- Introduction -- Growth and Structural Changes in Africa -- Methodology for Measuring Rates of Assistance and Taxation -- Estimates of Policy-Induced Distortions in Africa -- Nominal rates of assistance to agriculture -- Assistance to nonfarm sectors and relative rates of assistance -- Comparisons across regions and countries -- Consumer tax equivalents of agricultural policies -- The link between antifarm and antitrade policies -- International spillovers and multilateral agreements -- Summary: What have we learned? -- African governments have removed much of their earlier antifarm and antitrade policy biases -- Substantial distortions remain and still impose a large tax burden on Africa's poor -- African farmers have become less taxed in part because of the changing trade orientation of African agriculture -- Trade restrictions continue to be Africa's most important instruments of agricultural intervention -- Differences in NRAs and RRAs across commodities and countries are still substantial -- Implications for the Future -- Notes -- References -- PART 2 North Africa -- CHAPTER 2 Arab Republic of Egypt -- Introduction -- Growth and Structural Change in the Egyptian Economy, 1955 to 2005 -- Policy Evolution -- Measures of Distortions to Agricultural Incentives, 1955-2005 -- Nominal rates of assistance and consumer tax equivalents -- Relative rate of assistance -- Evolution of Specific Policy Choices and Their Impacts -- Overview: 1964-1986 -- Overview: 1987-2005 -- Crop-specific and other farm policies -- Cotton -- Rice -- Maize -- Sugar -- Wheat -- Livestock -- Input policies -- Food consumer policy -- Impact on Rural Incomes -- What about Future Policies? -- Notes.
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ISBN 9780821376522
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780821376522
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Print version Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Africa
Sprache:
Englisch
Mehr zum Autor:
Anderson, Kym 1950-
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