Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in China and Southeast Asia

This chapter begins with a brief summary of economic growth and structural changes in the region since the 1950s and of agricultural and other economic policies as they affected agriculture before and after the various reforms, and in several cases fundamental regime changes, of the past half-century. It then summarizes new estimates of the nominal rate of assistance (NRA) and the relative rate of assistance (RRA) to farmers delivered by national farm and nonfarm policies over the past several decades (depending on data availability), and of those policies' impacts on consumer prices of farm products. Both farmer assistance and consumer taxation is negative in periods where there is an anti-agricultural, pro-urban consumer bias in a country's policy regime. The final sections summarize what the author have learned and draw out implications of the findings, including for poverty and inequality and for possible future directions of policies affecting agricultural incentives in this part of Asia.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Anderson, Kym, Martin, Will
Format:	Working Paper biblioteca
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2008-09
Subjects:	AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT, AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS, AGRICULTURAL GROWTH, AGRICULTURAL POLICIES, AGRICULTURAL POLICY, AGRICULTURAL PRICE, AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION, AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS, AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH, AGRICULTURE, BALANCE SHEETS, BEEF, CASSAVA, COCOA, COMMODITIES, COMMODITY, COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE, COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGES, COMPETITIVENESS, CONSUMER PRICE, CONSUMER PRICES, CONSUMERS, CROP PRODUCTS, CROPS, CURRENCY, DATA AVAILABILITY, DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, DEVELOPING COUNTRY, DEVELOPING ECONOMIES, DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS, DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES, DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY, DOLLAR VALUE, DOLLAR VALUES, DOMESTIC ECONOMY, DOMESTIC MARKETS, DOMESTIC PRICES, ECONOMIC COOPERATION, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, ECONOMIC REFORMS, EXCHANGE RATE, EXCHANGE RATES, EXPENDITURE, EXPENDITURES, EXPORTS, FARM POLICIES, FARMERS, FARMS, FINANCIAL CRISIS, FOOD EXPORT, FOOD IMPORTS, FOOD MARKETS, FOOD POLICIES, FOOD POLICY, FOOD POLICY RESEARCH, FOOD PRICES, FOOD PRODUCT, FOOD PRODUCTS, FOOD STAPLES, FOREIGN EXCHANGE, FOREIGN EXCHANGE MARKET, FREE MARKETS, FRUITS, GDP, GDP DEFLATOR, GDP PER CAPITA, GINI COEFFICIENT, GLOBAL EXPORTS, GLOBAL MARKET, GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION, GRAINS, GROSS VALUE, IFPRI, INCOME, INDUSTRIALIZATION, INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INTERNATIONAL MARKET, INTERNATIONAL TRADE, ITC, LAISSEZ FAIRE, LDCS, LEGAL CONSTRAINTS, LIVESTOCK, LIVESTOCK PRODUCTS, LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES, MAIZE, MARKET ECONOMIES, MARKETPLACE, MERCHANDISE, MERCHANDISE EXPORTS, MERCHANDISE TRADE, MULTILATERAL TRADE, NET EXPORTS, OPEN ECONOMY, OUTPUT, OUTPUTS, PALM OIL, PER CAPITA INCOME, PER CAPITA INCOMES, POLITICAL ECONOMY, POVERTY ALLEVIATION, PRICE COMPARISON, PRICE COMPARISONS, PRICE DISTORTIONS, PRICE POLICIES, PRICING POLICY, PRODUCER PRICE, PRODUCER PRICES, PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH, PUBLIC GOOD, R&D, RAPID GROWTH, REAL GDP, REFORM PROGRAMS, REGIME CHANGES, RETAIL, RICE, RUBBER, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, RURAL INFRASTRUCTURE, SKILLED WORKERS, SOYBEAN, SPREAD, STAPLE FOODS, SUGAR, TAX, TAXATION, TEA, TEXTILES, THIN MARKET, TRADE BARRIERS, TRADE LIBERALIZATION, TRADE NEGOTIATIONS, TRADE POLICIES, TRADE POLICY, TRADE TAXES, TRANSITION ECONOMIES, URUGUAY ROUND, VOLATILITY, WHEAT, WOOD, WORLD DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS, WORLD ECONOMY, WORLD TRADE, WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION, WTO,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/614361468011123094/Distortions-to-agricultural-incentives-in-China-and-Southeast-Asia https://hdl.handle.net/10986/28187
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