Agricultural policy in developing countries

Agricultural Policy Choices in Developing Countries

The document contains ongoing work on an OECD project that examines the role of agricultural policies in raising incomes and reducing poverty in developing countries. A key focus is on ways in which the policy recommendations that the OECD has developed for its member countries might need to be qualified in the case of lower income developing countries. The paper is divided into two parts: Part...

Agricultural Policy Choices in Developing Countries: A Synthesis

Agricultural Productivity and Poverty in Developing Countries

Extensions to DFID Report No.7946 Lin Lin, Victoria McKenzie, Jenifer Piesse and Colin Thirtle * Environmental Policy and Management Group T.H.Huxley School of Environment, Earth Sciences and Engineering Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, SW 7 2BP ** School of Management and Organizational Psychology Birkbeck College, University of London, London, WC 1E 7HX and Univer...

Agricultural Research and Policy for Better Health and Nutrition In Developing Countries: A Food Systems Approach

This paper is about the two-way causal relationships between the global food system and health and nutrition. It argues that the global food system begins and ends with health and that the prioritization and implementation of agricultural research and policy should consider health and nutrition effects. An integrated health and food policy approach is likely to be more effective in achieving bo...

Tmd Discussion Paper No. 105 General Equilibrium Measures of Agricultural Policy Bias in Fifteen Developing Countries

In this paper, we present a comparative analysis of the extent to which indirect taxes, tariffs, and exchange rates affected relative price incentives for agricultural production in a representative sample of 15 developing countries in the 1990s. Empirical studies from the 1980s, using partial equilibrium methodologies, supported the view that policies in many developing countries imparted a ma...