Notwithstanding the tariffication component of the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture, import tariffs on farm …

impacts of those insulating policies on grain prices and on the grain trade and economic welfare of the world’s various …

This paper has two purposes. It first considers the impact on world food prices of the changes in restrictions on trade … in staple foods during the 2008 world food price crisis. Those changes—reductions in import protection or increases in …

For decades the world’s agricultural markets have been highly distorted by national government policies, but very … restrictiveness indexes. It then exploits a global agricultural distortions database recently compiled by the World Bank to generate … a sample of 75 countries that together account for more than three-quarters of the world’s production of those …

increasingly on price subsidies and trade restrictions. We outline the situation of CEE agriculture and describe current policies …. Scarce government funds could be better used to support agriculture by providing partial loan guarantees, thus reducing … and trade policies should be used to support CEE agriculture, citing the example of OECD nations, and in particular the …

Despite recent reforms, world agricultural markets remain highly distorted by government policies. Traditional …