Government distortions to agricultural prices: Lessons from rich and emerging economies

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dc.contributor.authorAnderson, K.
dc.contributor.editorOtsuka, K.
dc.contributor.editorKalirajan, K.
dc.date.issued2011
dc.description.abstractFor many decades agricultural protection and subsidies in high-income (and some middle-income) countries have been depressing international prices of farm products, which lowers the earnings of farmers and associated rural businesses in developing countries. That worsened between the 1950s and the early 1980s (Anderson et al., 1986), thereby adding to global inequality and poverty because three-quarters of the world’s poorest people depend directly or indirectly on agriculture for their main income (World Bank, 2007). In addition to that external policy influence on rural poverty, however, the governments of many developing countries have directly taxed their farmers over the past half-century. A well-known example is the taxing of exports of plantation crops in postcolonial Africa (Bates, 1981). At the same time, many developing countries chose also to pursue an import-substituting industrialization strategy, predominantly by restricting imports of manufactures, and to overvalue their currency. Together those measures indirectly taxed producers of other tradable products in developing economies, by far the majority of them being farmers (Krueger et al., 1988, 1991).
dc.description.statementofresponsibilityKym Anderson
dc.identifier.citationCommunity, Market and State in Development, 2011 / Otsuka, K., Kalirajan, K. (ed./s), Ch.7, pp.80-102
dc.identifier.doi10.1057/9780230295018_7
dc.identifier.isbn0230274587
dc.identifier.isbn9780230274587
dc.identifier.orcidAnderson, K. [0000-0002-1472-3352]
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2440/109423
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherPalgrave MacMillan
dc.publisher.placeBasingstoke, United Kingdom
dc.rightsIndividual chapters © Contributors 2010
dc.source.urihttp://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9780230274587
dc.titleGovernment distortions to agricultural prices: Lessons from rich and emerging economies
dc.typeBook chapter
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