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082			_a338.13 POL
100			_a"Anderson, Kym. (ed.)"
245		0	_aPolitical economy of agricultural price distortions / edited by
260			_aCambridge
260			_bCambridge University Press
260			_c2010
300			_a439p.
365			_b9000
365			_dRS
520			_aDespite numerous policy reforms since the 1980s, farm product prices remain heavily distorted in both high-income and developing countries. This book seeks to improve our understanding of why societies adopted these policies, and why some but not other countries have undertaken reforms. Drawing on recent developments in political economy theories and in the generation of empirical measures of the extent of price distortions, the present volume provides both analytical narratives of the historical origins of agricultural protectionism in various parts of the world and a set of political econometric analyses aimed at explaining the patterns of distortions that have emerged over the past five decades. These new studies shed much light on the forces affecting incentives and those facing farmers in the course of national and global economic and political development. They also show how those distortions might change in the future.
650			_aAgricultural prices
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