Distribution of Agricultural NRAs across Countries and Products, 1955-84 and 1985-2007
The global database developed as an integral part of the World Bank's research project on Distortions to Agricultural Incentives, which is publicly available, provides around 30,000 estimates of nominal rates assistance to agricultural industr...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/715221468169755180/Distribution-of-agricultural-NRAs-across-countries-and-products-1955-84-and-1985-2007 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28174 |
| Summary: | The global database developed as an
integral part of the World Bank's research project on
Distortions to Agricultural Incentives, which is publicly
available, provides around 30,000 estimates of nominal rates
assistance to agricultural industries (NRAs) and associated
consumer tax equivalents for 75 countries that together
account for between 90 and 95 percent of the world's
population, farmers, agricultural output and total Gross
Domestic Product (GDP). They also account for more than 85
percent of farm production and employment in each of Africa,
Asia, Latin America and the transition economies of Europe
and Central Asia as well as all Organization for Economic
Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries. More than 70
products are included (an average of 11 per country), which
represents around 70 percent of the gross value of
agricultural production in each of the focus countries, and
just under two-thirds of global farm production valued at
undistorted prices over the period covered. Not all
countries had data for all of the entire 1955-2007 period,
but the average number of years covered is 41 per country.
This paper provides details of the coverage of the database.
It also summarizes the distributions of the NRAs by showing
two sets of Box plots for 1955-84 and 1985-2007, one set for
various regions of the world, the other for all the covered
products for each focus country. |
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