Poverty, Inequality, and Agriculture in the EU
Boosting convergence and shared prosperity in the European Union achieved renewed urgency after the global financial crisis of 2008. This paper assesses the role of agriculture and the Common Agricultural Program in achieving this. The paper sheds...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2018
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/993881541436194989/Poverty-Inequality-and-Agriculture-in-the-EU http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30844 |
| Summary: | Boosting convergence and shared
prosperity in the European Union achieved renewed urgency
after the global financial crisis of 2008. This paper
assesses the role of agriculture and the Common Agricultural
Program in achieving this. The paper sheds light on the
relationship between poverty and agriculture as part of the
process of structural transformation. It positions each
member country on the path toward a successful structural
transformation. The paper then evaluates at the regional
level where the Common Agricultural Program funding tends to
go, poverty-wise, within each country. This approach enables
making more informed policy recommendations on the current
state of the Common Agricultural Program funding, as well as
evaluating the role of agriculture as a driver of shared
prosperity. The analysis performed throughout the paper uses
a combination of data sources at several spatial levels. |
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