Sector-Specific and Economywide Policies and Agricultural Incentives in LDCs

Maurice Schiff

No 197660, 1989 Occasional Paper Series No. 5 from International Association of Agricultural Economists

Abstract: The concept of sector-specific and economy-wide policies on incentives for agriculture is defined. A methodology is described for measuring the impact of those policies and results are given for a sample of commodities for 18 developing countires for 1975-84. On average, sector-specifiv policies tax agricultural exports and protect agricultural imports. Economywide policies tax agricultural products. The impacts of the economywide policies dominate those of the sector-specific policies both for agricultural exports (where they are negative) and imports (where the impact of the specific policy to agriculture is positive).

Keywords: Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy; Agricultural Finance; Land Economics/Use (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 7
Date: 1989
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.197660

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