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  • Agrarian Policies in Central Americaby Wim Pelupessy; Ruerd Ruben

    Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 1999; US$ 110.00

    Macroeconomic adjustment and sectoral reforms have strongly modified the framework for rural development in Central America. Local producers have only received marginal benefits from the liberalization of markets and the privatization of financial and commercial services. This book offers a structural analysis of agrarian policies in Central America and their impact on production conditions and farmers' welfare. Segmentation of rural factor and product markets and institutional failures have imposed severe constraints on the effectiveness of the applied policy instruments. more...

  • OECD Review of Agricultural Policies - Chileby OECD Publishing

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2008; US$ 63.00

    This Review measures the level and composition of support provided to Chilean agriculture, and evaluates the effectiveness of current measures in attaining their objectives. The study finds that Chile provides much lower support and protection to its agricultural sector than most OECD countries, even though government expenditures on the sector have trebled in real terms over the past ten years. About half of that spending is on public goods such as infrastructure and irrigation, while the other half consists mostly of measures that seek to make Chile’s poorer farmers more competitive. This report suggests ways in which the effectiveness of these policies might be enhanced, including by systematic evaluation of policy performance, by closer... more...

  • Rural Agroindustry in Latin Americaby Ed Weber; Bernard Bridier; Raul Fiorentino

    International Development Research Centre 1997; US$ 25.00

    PRODAR is a federation of national networks dedicated to developing rural agroindustry as a way to reduce food losses and provide stable sources of food and income in Latin America. This publication presents the finding of 1996 mission to evaluate PRODAR and will interest development planners, rural-development reaearchers, technical specialists, nongovernmental organizations, donors, and rural community associations. more...

  • Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Latin Americaby Alberto Valdes

    World Bank Publications 2008; US$ 29.99

    Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Latin America provides an overview of the evolution of distortions to agricultural incentives caused by price and trade policies in five economies of South America plus the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, and Mexico. Together these countries comprise about 80 percent of the region’s population, agricultural output, and overall GDP. The new empirical indicators in these country studies provide a strong evidence-based foundation for assessing the successes and failures of the past and for evaluating policy options for the years ahead. more...

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