Distortions to agricultural incentives in Latin America

by Ed. by Kym Anderson and Alberto Valdés

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Book description: The World Bank, 2008. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. This study by Andersen (economics, U. of Adelaide, Australia) and Valdés (U. Católica de Chile) compiles new annual time series estimates of protection and taxation in agriculture in Mexico, Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic, Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil, Chile, and Argentina over the past half century in order to obtain quantitative indicators of policy interventions, to gain understanding of the political economy of what they identify as price distortions on agricultural incentives and competitiveness, and to explore means of reducing such distortions. Their findings detail information regarding the taxation of farmers relative to nonagricultural producers, dispersion across Latin America in average nominal and relative rates of assistance for farmers, antitrade bias in assistance rates within the farm sector, the impact of trade-restrictive measures, movements in the consumer tax equivalence, and cuts in protection in nonagricultural sectors. (©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR)

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