Distortions to agricultural incentives a global perspective, 1955-2007 /
The fifth and last volume in the 'Distortions to Agricultural Incentives' series focus on distortions to agricultural incentives from a global perspective. During the 1960s and 1970s most developing countries imposed anti-agricultural policies, while many high-income countries restricted a...
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Washington, DC :
Palgrave Macmillan ; World Bank,
c2009.
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| Online Access: | ebrary View fulltext via EzAccess Full text available from World Bank e-Library MyiLibrary |
| Summary: | The fifth and last volume in the 'Distortions to Agricultural Incentives' series focus on distortions to agricultural incentives from a global perspective. During the 1960s and 1970s most developing countries imposed anti-agricultural policies, while many high-income countries restricted agricultural imports and subsidized their farmers. Both sets of policies inhibited economic growth and poverty alleviation in developing countries. Since the 1980s, however, many developing countries began to reverse that policy trend. This book brings together the first-ever comprehensive and consistent set of. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxxv, 644 p.) : ill., map. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780821376652 (pbk.) 0821376659 (pbk.) 9780821379738 (hardback) 0821379739 (hardback) 9780821376669 (electronic) 0821376667 (electronic) |