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

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
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13473

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