Distortions to agricultural incentives in Asia

• Other Authors: Anderson, Kym., Martin, Will, 1953-
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, D.C. : World Bank, c2009.
• Series: Trade and development series.
• Subjects: Agriculture > Economic aspects > Asia.; Agriculture and state > Asia.; Agriculture > Taxation > Asia.; Agricultural subsidies > Asia.; Agriculture.; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Agribusiness. > Industries; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Sustainable Agriculture. > Agriculture; Electronic books.
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Distortions to Agricultural incentives in Asia is the third volume in a series of books that brings together analytical narratives of the evolution over the past half-century of policy-imposed distortions to farmer incentives and food prices in 80 countries. Drawing on new consistent set of estimate...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction and summary / Kym Anderson and Will Martin
• Republic of Korea and Taiwan, China / Masayoshi Homma and Yujiro Hayami
• China / Jikun Huang ... [et al.]
• Indonesia / George Fane and Peter Warr
• Malaysia / Prema-Chandra Athukorala and Wai-Heng Loke
• The Philippines / Cristina David, Ponciano Intal, and Arsenio M. Balisacan
• Thailand / Peter Warr and Archanun Kohpaiboon
• Vietnam / Prema-Chandra Athukorala, Pham Lan Huong, and Vo Tri Thanh
• Bangladesh / Nazneen Ahmed ... [et al.]
• India / Garry Pursell, Ashok Gulati, and Kanupriya Gupta
• Pakistan / Paul A. Dorosh and Abdul Salam
• Sri Lanka / Jayatilleke Bandara and Sisira Jayasuriya
• Appendixes: A. Methodology for measuring distortions to agricultural incentives / Kym Anderson ... [et al.]
• B. Annual estimates of Asian distortions to agricultural incentives / Ernesto Balenzuela ... [et al.].