Download or read book Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Latin America written by Kym Anderson and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2008-10-02 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vast majority of the world's poorest households depend on farming for their livelihood. During the 1960s and 1970s, most developing countries imposed pro-urban and anti-agricultural policies, while many high-income countries restricted agricultural imports and subsidized their farmers. Both sets of policies inhibited economic growth and poverty alleviation in developing countries. Although progress has been made over the past two decades to reduce those policy biases, many trade- and welfare-reducing price distortions remain between agriculture and other sectors as well as within the agricultural sector of both rich and poor countries. Comprehensive empirical studies of the disarray in world agricultural markets first appeared approximately 20 years ago. Since then the OECD has provided estimates each year of market distortions in high-income countries, but there has been no comparable estimates for the world's developing countries. This volume is the second in a series (other volumes cover Africa, Asia, and Europe's transition economies) that not only fills that void for recent years but extends the estimates in a consistent and comparable way back in time and provides analytical narratives for scores of countries that shed light on the evolving nature and extent of policy interventions over the past half-century. '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 the economies of South America, plus the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, and Mexico. Together these countries constitute about 80 percent of the region's population, agricultural output, and overall GDP. Sectoral, trade, and exchange rate policies in the region have changed greatly since the 1950s, and there have been substantial reforms, especially in the 1980s. Nonetheless, numerous price distortions in this region remain, others have been added, and there have even been some policy reversals in recent years. 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.
Download or read book Appendices Annual Report 1992 written by and published by IICA. This book was released on with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Toward A Working Agenda For Sustainable Agricultural Development written by Eduardo Trigo and published by IICA Biblioteca Venezuela. This book was released on 1991 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Social Sciences written by Katherine D. McCann and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2000-12-01 with total page 958 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 130 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year between social sciences and humanities. The Handbook annotates works on Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and the Guianas, Spanish South America, and Brazil, as well as materials covering Latin America as a whole. Most of the subsections are preceded by introductory essays that serve as biannual evaluations of the literature and research under way in specialized areas. The Handbook of Latin American Studies is the oldest continuing reference work in the field. Katherine D. McCann is acting editor for this volume. The subject categories for Volume 57 are as follows: Electronic Resources for the Social Sciences Anthropology Economics Geography Government and Politics International Relations Sociology
Download or read book El desarrollo rural sostenible written by Valor Y Vigencia and published by IICA. This book was released on with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book El Desarrollo Rural Sostenible Y Cooperacion Tecnica Del Iica written by Valor Y Vigencia and published by Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE. This book was released on 1998 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Handbook of Latin American Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains scholarly evaluations of books and book chapters as well as conference papers and articles published worldwide in the field of Latin American studies. Covers social sciences and the humanities in alternate years.
Download or read book Hacia una orientaci n para la acci n de cooperaci n t cnica en ciencia tecnolog a y recursos naturales written by and published by IICA Biblioteca Venezuela. This book was released on with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Pest Risk Analysis written by Jerry L. Fowler and published by IICA Biblioteca Venezuela. This book was released on 1993 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pest risk assessment methodology; The role of IICA's agricultural health program in PRA.
Download or read book Agricultural Modernization and Resource Deterioration in Latin America written by Jorge A. Torres Z. and published by IICA Biblioteca Venezuela. This book was released on 1994 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agricultural modernization in Latin America; Environmental risks pf agricultural modernization; The environment and public policy.
Download or read book Rural Poverty Reduction written by Ruben G. Echeverría and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document proposes a menu of strategic approaches and options for reducing rural poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean, combining the Bank's own experiences and those of other organizations in designing options and instruments for use in programs carried out with the support of the Bank. The proposals made in this document are consistent with a number of strategic initiatives already drawn up or in preparation by the Bank, in particular those aimed at poverty reduction (IDB 1997), promotion of microenterprises (IDB 1996a), development of indigenous communities, rural finance (IDB 1998a), and sustainable agriculture (IDB 1998a). Thus, a number of the alternatives presented here are already being applied by the Bank in several of its activities. Depending on the needs of each country, one or more of the options discussed could be used to define a rural poverty reduction agenda on a case-by-case basis. The flexibility of these approaches makes it possible to apply them to specific problems at the national, regional and even municipal level.
Download or read book Atenci n de salud para los pobres en la Am rica Latina y el Caribe written by Carmelo Mesa-Lago and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 1992 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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