Stage 2 Working Papers

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Economic analyses of distortions to agricultural incentives:

A. Reasons behind estimated distortion patterns of the past five decades

• Political Economy of Agricultural Distortions: Introduction and Summary
• Agricultural Distortion Patterns since the 1950s: What Needs Explaining
• Agricultural Political Economy: The Literature to Date  
• Special Interests Versus the Public Interest in Policy Determination
• Anglo-French Trade, 1689-1899: Agricultural Trade, Alcohol Taxes and War 
• Agricultural Protection Growth in Europe, 1870-1969
• Determinants of Farm Policies in the United States, 1996-2008
• Agricultural Distortions in Transition Economies of Asia and Europe
• Agricultural Price Distortions and Stabilization
• Which Governments Tax or Subsidize Agricultural Trade?
• Impacts of Ideology, Inequality, Lobbying and Public Finance
• Agricultural Trade Interventions in Africa
• Do Trade Agreements Reduce the Volatility of Agricultural Distortions? 
• Constitutional Rules and Agricultural Policy Outcomes
• Appendix: Coverage and Distribution of NRAs across Countries and Products, 1955-2007
  
  
• An Emerging Agricultural Problem in High-Performing Asian Economies (pdf - 140k)
• Effects of Supply/Demand Elasticities on Political-Economic Equilibria  (pdf - 440k)
• Food Safety, the Environment, and Trade (pdf - 155k)

Explaining Inefficient Policy Instruments (pdf - 135k)

• The Logic of the CAP: Politics or Economics? (pdf - 570k)

B. Poverty and inequality effects of measured distortion patterns

• Introduction and Summary (pdf - 437k)
• Global effects using the Linkage Model - (pdf - 440k)
• Global Poverty and Distributional Impacts of Agricultural Distortions (pdf - 397k)
• Effects in a sample of countries using the GTAP model - (pdf - 305k)
• China - (pdf 317k)
• Indonesia - (pdf 234k)
• Pakistan - (pdf 221k)
• Philippines - (pdf 389k)
• Thailand - (pdf 168k)
• Mozambique - (pdf 331k)
• Republic of South Africa - (pdf 320k)
• Argentina - (pdf 294k)
• Brazil - (pdf 364k)
• Nicaragua - (pdf 477k)
• Border Price and Export Demand Shocks for Developing Countries from Rest-of-World Trade Liberalization Using the Linkage Model (pdf - 876k)

 

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