Publication: Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Latin America
Date
2008
ISSN
Published
2008
Author(s)
Abstract
This book provides an overview of the
evolution of distortions to agricultural incentives caused
by price and trade policies in the World Bank-defined region
of Latin America and the Caribbean. Following the
introduction and summary, it includes commissioned country
studies of one Caribbean, one Central American, and six
South American economies. The chapters are followed by two
appendixes. The first describes the methodology used to
measure the nominal and relative rates of assistance to
farmers and the taxes and subsidies involved in food
consumption; the second provides country and regional
summaries, in tables, of annual estimates of these rates of
assistance. This study on Latin America is based on a sample
of eight countries, comprising the big four economies of
Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico; Colombia and Ecuador,
two of the poorest South American tropical countries; the
Dominican Republic, the largest Caribbean economy; and
Nicaragua, the poorest country in Central America. Together,
in 2000-04, these countries accounted for 78 percent of the
region's population, 80 percent of the region's
agricultural value added, and 84 percent of the total gross
domestic product (GDP) of Latin America.
Citation
“Anderson, Kym; Valdés, Alberto. 2008. Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Latin America. © Washington, DC : World Bank. http://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/6604 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”