[fre] Nous étudions les effets de distorsion sur les échanges de différents instruments de soutien des revenus agricoles dans un modèle où il y a libre entrée et sortie. Les agriculteurs diffèrent en fonction d'un paramètre d'efficacité et il y a échanges de terres des producteurs à...

In the framework of a two-country, two-good partial equilibrium model where one of the commodities (the bulk commodity) is an intermediate input in the production of the second good (the processed good), we assume that the government wishes to transfer income to both bulk commodity and processed...

This paper applies a five-step approach to the investigation of the relationship between public subsidies, namely CAP direct payments, and managerial efficiency for French COP and beef farms in 2000. Managerial efficiency scores are calculated using a four-step approach that allows disentangling...

This paper analyses trade distortion effects of various agricultural income support instruments. There is free entry and exit. Farmers are heterogeneous and the land market explicitly entails trades of land from low ability to high ability producers. Policy implications are derived in the...

La Revista Integración & Comercio del BID incluye artículos referidos a las distintas manifestaciones del proceso de integración en América Latina y el Caribe, a la integración hemisférica y, también, a los procesos con igual orientación que se llevan a cabo en otras partes del mundo....

The European Union is bound by World Trade organisation agreements to move to a tariff-only import system for bananas no later than 1 january 2006. From that date, imports from non-ACP countries will be subject to a single tariff while ACP country bananas will continue to enter the EU market...

Available estimates of biofuel-induced land use change (LUC) and corresponding greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions vary on a wide range while estimations obtained from each model are highly sensitive to certain assumptions and key parameter values. Available studies often suggest that biodiesel and...

In relation to the growing debate around multifunctionality, this paper attempts to classify alternative measures of agricultural income support according to their ability in achieving three policy objectives (supporting agricultural income, promoting positive externalities and reducing negative...

L'article analyse et classe quatre programmes de soutien des revenus agricoles (une subvention à la production, une subvention à la surface, un paiement découplé avec obligation de produire et un paiement découplé sans obligation de produire) en fonction de leurs performances, au regard de...