Agricultural price distortions, inequality, and poverty [[electronic resource] /] / Kym Anderson, John Cockburn and Will Martin, editors

• Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C., : World Bank, 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1007 p.)
• Disciplina: 339.4/6
• Soggetto topico: Agricultural prices - Government policy; Farm income - Developing countries; Agricultural wages - Developing countries; Poverty
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: AndersonKym CockburnJohn MartinWill <1953->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Abbreviations; Part I: Introduction; Chapter 1: Introduction and Summary; Part II: Global CGE Approaches; Chapter 2: Global Welfare and Poverty Effects: Linkage Model Results; Chapter 3: Global Poverty and Distributional Impacts: The GIDD Model; Chapter 4: Poverty Impacts in 15 Countries: The GTAP Model; Part III: National CGE Approaches: Asia; Chapter 5: China; Chapter 6: Indonesia; Chapter 7: Pakistan; Chapter 8: The Philippines; Chapter 9: Thailand; Part IV: National CGE Approaches: Africa ; Chapter 10: MozambiqueChapter 11: South Africa; Part V: National CGE Approaches: Latin America; Chapter 12: Argentina; Chapter 13: Brazil; Chapter 14: Nicaragua; Appendix: Border Price and Export Demand Shocks in Developing Countries from Rest-of-the-World Trade Liberalization: The Linkage Model; Index; Back cover
• Sommario/riassunto: Trade policy reforms in recent decades have sharply reduced the distortions that were harming agriculture in developing countries. Yet global trade in farm products continues to be far more distorted than trade in nonfarm goods, and in ways that reduce some forms of poverty and inequality but worsen others, so the net effects are unclear without empirical modeling. Using a new set of estimates of agricultural price distortions, this book brings together economy-wide global and national empirical studies that focus on the net effects of the remaining distortions to world merchandise trade on po
• Titolo autorizzato: Agricultural price distortions, inequality, and poverty
• ISBN: 1-282-65738-0; 9786612657382; 0-8213-8185-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910458288303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Trade and Development Series