The Political Economy of Underinvestment in Agriculture

Jean-Marie Baland and Ashok Kotwal

Working Papers from Notre-Dame de la Paix, Sciences Economiques et Sociales

Abstract: A simple model of political economy is constructed to capture the following view: Owners of sector-specific factors form political lobbies in order to influence government policy within the perimeter defined by the existing paradigm.

Keywords: POLITICAL ECONOMY; AGRICULTURE; FARMING; INVESTMENTS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q10 Q18 Q19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 28 pages
Date: 1996
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