Agricultural Distortions in Sub-Saharan Africa : Trade and Welfare Indicators, 1961 to 2004

For decades, agricultural price and trade policies in Sub-Saharan Africa hampered farmers' contributions to economic growth and poverty reduction. This paper draws on a modification of so-called trade restrictiveness indexes to provide theoretically precise partial-equilibrium indicators of the...

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Main Authors:	Croser, Johanna L., Anderson, Kym
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	en_US
Published:	World Bank 2013
Subjects:	agriculture benchmark consumers development assistance equilibrium exchange rates exports GDP gross value import barriers index numbers international trade national income partial equilibrium analysis price elasticity taxation trade policies Trade Policy transition economies welfare economics
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spelling	okr-10986-134732021-04-23T14:03:08Z Agricultural Distortions in Sub-Saharan Africa : Trade and Welfare Indicators, 1961 to 2004 Croser, Johanna L. Anderson, Kym agriculture benchmark consumers development assistance equilibrium exchange rates exports GDP gross value import barriers index numbers international trade national income partial equilibrium analysis price elasticity taxation trade policies Trade Policy transition economies welfare economics For decades, agricultural price and trade policies in Sub-Saharan Africa hampered farmers' contributions to economic growth and poverty reduction. This paper draws on a modification of so-called trade restrictiveness indexes to provide theoretically precise partial-equilibrium indicators of the trade and welfare effects of agricultural policy distortions to producer and consumer prices in 19 African countries since 1961. Annual time series estimates are provided not only by country but also, for the region, by commodity and by policy instrument. The findings reveal the considerable extent of policy reform over the past two decades, especially through reducing export taxation; but they also reveal that national policies continue to reduce trade and economic welfare much more in Sub-Saharan Africa than in Asia or Latin America. 2013-05-20T21:32:04Z 2013-05-20T21:32:04Z 2011-05-31 Journal Article World Bank Economic Review 1564-698X doi:10.1093/wber/lhr012 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13473 en_US World Bank Economic Review;25(2) CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank Journal Article Sub-Saharan Africa
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description	For decades, agricultural price and trade policies in Sub-Saharan Africa hampered farmers' contributions to economic growth and poverty reduction. This paper draws on a modification of so-called trade restrictiveness indexes to provide theoretically precise partial-equilibrium indicators of the trade and welfare effects of agricultural policy distortions to producer and consumer prices in 19 African countries since 1961. Annual time series estimates are provided not only by country but also, for the region, by commodity and by policy instrument. The findings reveal the considerable extent of policy reform over the past two decades, especially through reducing export taxation; but they also reveal that national policies continue to reduce trade and economic welfare much more in Sub-Saharan Africa than in Asia or Latin America.
format	Journal Article
author	Croser, Johanna L. Anderson, Kym
author_facet	Croser, Johanna L. Anderson, Kym
author_sort	Croser, Johanna L.
title	Agricultural Distortions in Sub-Saharan Africa : Trade and Welfare Indicators, 1961 to 2004
title_short	Agricultural Distortions in Sub-Saharan Africa : Trade and Welfare Indicators, 1961 to 2004
title_full	Agricultural Distortions in Sub-Saharan Africa : Trade and Welfare Indicators, 1961 to 2004
title_fullStr	Agricultural Distortions in Sub-Saharan Africa : Trade and Welfare Indicators, 1961 to 2004
title_full_unstemmed	Agricultural Distortions in Sub-Saharan Africa : Trade and Welfare Indicators, 1961 to 2004
title_sort	agricultural distortions in sub-saharan africa : trade and welfare indicators, 1961 to 2004
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Agricultural Distortions in Sub-Saharan Africa : Trade and Welfare Indicators, 1961 to 2004

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