Publication: Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in China and Southeast Asia
Date
2008-09
ISSN
Published
2008-09
Author(s)
Abstract
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.
Citation
“Anderson, Kym; Martin, Will. 2008. Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in China and Southeast Asia. Agricultural Distortions Working Paper;69. © World Bank, Washington, DC. http://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/28187 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”