Working Papers

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There are two sets of working papers for this project:

Stage 1 - Country case studies that provide new estimates of distortions over the past five decades

Stage 2 - Economic analyses of the reasons behind and economic effects of those measured distortion patterns 

Revised and condensed versions of the Stage 1 Working Papers have been edited for publication in the following books:

• Anderson, K. and J. Swinnen (eds.), Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Europe’s Transition Economies, Washington DC: World Bank, June 2008
• Anderson, K. and A. Valdés (eds.), Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Latin America, Washington DC: World Bank, October 2008
• Anderson, K. and W.A. Masters (eds.), Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Africa, Washington DC: World Bank, March 2009
• Anderson, K. and W. Martin (eds.), Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Asia, Washington DC: World Bank, March 2009
• Anderson, K. (ed.), Distortions to Agricultural Incentives: A Global Perspective, 1955 to 2007, London: Palgrave Macmillan and Washington DC: World Bank, October 2009, Recipient of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society’s Quality of Research Discovery Prize, 2010 and of the (US) Agricultural and Applied Economics Association's 2010 Bruce Gardner Memorial Prize for Applied Policy Analysis.

Revised and condensed versions of the Stage 2 Working Papers have been edited for publication in the following books:

• Anderson, K., J. Cockburn and W. Martin (eds.), Agricultural Price Distortions, Inequality and Poverty, Washington DC: World Bank, March 2010
• Anderson, K. (ed.), The Political Economy of Agricultural Price Distortions, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, September 2010

 

Click here to access the Excel Database on Global Distortions to Agricultural Incentives, 1955 - 2007

 

Last updated on Jan 24, 2011