"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 …

"Despite recent reforms, world agricultural markets remain highly distorted by government policies. Traditional … sector policies are generated without a formal model of global markets or even price elasticity estimates. "--World Bank web …

-the opposite of what is usually thought of when considering inter-sector trade retaliation. Phasing down World Trade Organization … import restrictions when international prices slump. To date there is no parallel discipline in the World Trade Organization … that limits increases in export restrictions when prices spike upward, however. Bringing such discipline through new World …

the remaining distortions to world merchandise trade on poverty and inequality globally and in various developing …

For individual countries, variable trade barriers can be used to reduce the volatility of domestic relative to world … prices. If this is done by countries accounting for a large share of the market, its effect is offset by increases in world … price volatility. This study shows the nature of the resulting collective action problem, with the policy being ineffective …