Focus - Agricultural price policy: revisiting Krueger, Schiff, and Valdés
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Two alternative interpretations of history have very different implications for future agricultural trade reform. Two decades ago a major World Bank study of distortions to agricultural incentives in 18 developing countries was published by Anne O. Krueger, Maurice Schiff, and Alberto Valdés (The Political Economy of Agricultural Pricing Policy, 3 vols., Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991). That K/S/V study, which covered 1960–84, found that policies in most of those...[Show more]
dc.contributor.author | Anderson, Kym | |
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dc.date.accessioned | 2016-08-15T23:50:29Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-08-15T23:50:29Z | |
dc.date.created | 2010 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/107183 | |
dc.description.abstract | Two alternative interpretations of history have very different implications for future agricultural trade reform. Two decades ago a major World Bank study of distortions to agricultural incentives in 18 developing countries was published by Anne O. Krueger, Maurice Schiff, and Alberto Valdés (The Political Economy of Agricultural Pricing Policy, 3 vols., Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991). That K/S/V study, which covered 1960–84, found that policies in most of those developing countries were harming their farmers—either directly, through such things as taxes on agricultural exports, or indirectly, through manufacturing protection and exchange rate overvaluation. | |
dc.format.extent | 1 page | |
dc.format.mimetype | 1 page | |
dc.language.iso | en_AU | |
dc.publisher | World Bank | |
dc.rights | © World Bank. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/terms-of-use The article is made available through the Open Knowledge Repository (OKR)- World Bank Group policy. (Publisher website 4/12/2017) | |
dc.source | World Bank Research Digest | |
dc.source.uri | http://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/reference | |
dc.subject | agricultural | |
dc.subject | trade | |
dc.subject | reform | |
dc.subject | distortion | |
dc.subject | developing countries | |
dc.subject | Anne O. Krueger | |
dc.subject | Maurice Schiff | |
dc.subject | Alberto Valdés | |
dc.subject | K/S/V study | |
dc.subject | manufacturing protection | |
dc.subject | taxes | |
dc.title | Focus - Agricultural price policy: revisiting Krueger, Schiff, and Valdés | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
local.identifier.citationvolume | 4 | |
local.publisher.url | http://www.worldbank.org/ | |
local.type.status | Published Version | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Anderson, Kym, Arndt-Corden Department of Economics, CAP Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University | |
local.bibliographicCitation.issue | 2 | |
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage | 2 | |
dcterms.accessRights | Open Access | |
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