The Uruguay Round and Welfare in Some Distorted Agricultural Economies

James Anderson

No 360, Boston College Working Papers in Economics from Boston College Department of Economics

Abstract: There is widespread concern about the effect of the Uruguay Round policy changes on world agricultural prices and consequently upon the welfare of developing countries. Assessing welfare changes with the standard terms of trade effect calculation can be misleading for distorted economies, since the distortion effect operates in addition or in opposition to the terms of trade effect. This study reveals distortion effects which are many times larger than terms of trade effects in a study of the Uruguay Round's impact on 9 agricultural economies. In 3 of 9 cases, the distortion effect reverses the impact of the terms of trade effect. In 2 other cases the distortion effect raises a trivial terms of trade effect up to around 1% of national income.

Keywords: Uruguay; Round (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F13 F14 O13 O20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32 pages
Date: 1997-01-01
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Published, Journal of Development Economics, 1998, 56:393-410

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Journal Article: The Uruguay Round and welfare in some distorted agricultural economies (1998)
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