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Informationen zum Autor KYM ANDERSON is a Research Fellow at Europe's London-based Centre for Economic Policy Research, a Fellow of the American Agricultural Economic Association (AAEA), a Distinguished Fellow (and a past President) of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society (AARES), and a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA). His research interests and publications are in the areas of international trade and development, agricultural economics, and environmental and resource economics. He has published more than 20 books and 200 journal articles and chapters in other books. Klappentext This book brings together analytical narratives of the evolution over the past half-century of policy-imposed distortions to farmer incentives and food prices in 75 countries, drawing on a new, consistent set of estimates spanning 90 percent of the world's agricultural production. Zusammenfassung This book brings together analytical narratives of the evolution over the past half-century of policy-imposed distortions to farmer incentives and food prices in 75 countries! drawing on a new! consistent set of estimates spanning 90 percent of the world's agricultural production. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Contributors Abbreviations and Acronyms PART I: INTRODUCTION Five Decades of Distortions to Agricultural Incentives; K. Anderson PART II: EVOLUTION OF DISTORTIONS IN ADVANCED ECONOMIES Japan, Korea and Taiwan; M. Honma&Y. Hayami Western Europe; T.Josling United States and Canada; B.Gardner Australia and New Zealand; K.Anderson, R.Lattimore, P.Lloyd & D.MacLaren PART III: EVOLUTION OF DISTORTIONS IN EMERGING ECONOMIES Eastern Europe and Central Asia; K. Anderson & J. Swinnen Latin America and the Caribbean; K.Anderson and A.Vald¿s Sub-Saharan and North Africa; K.Anderson & W.Masters China and Southeast Asia; K.Anderson& W.Martin India and Other South Asia; A.Gulati& G.Pursell PART IV: MARKET AND WELFARE CONSEQUENCES OF PAST AND CURRENT DISTORTIONS Distortions to Key Commodity Markets; K.Anderson, J.Croser, S. Nelgen & E.Valenzuela Welfare and Trade-based Indicators of National Distortions; P.Lloyd, J.Croser & K.Anderson General Equilibrium Effects of Price Distortions on Global Markets, Farm Incomes and Welfare; E. Valenzuela, D.van der Mensbrugghe & K.Anderson Appendix A: Methodology for Measuring Distortions to Agricultural Incentives; K.Anderson, M.Kurzweil, W.Martin, D.Sandri& E.Valenzuela Appendix B: Global Distortions Database, 1955 to 2007; K. Anderson& E. Valenzuela Index...
