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ISBN-10 : 1137501022
ISBN-13 : 9781137501028
Author : Johan Swinnen
Winner of the European Association of Agricultural Economists Book Award Food and agriculture have been subject to heavy-handed government interventions throughout much of history and across the globe, both in developing and in developed countries. Today, more than half a trillion US dollars are spent by some governments to support farmers, while other governments impose regulations and taxes that hurt farmers. Some policies, such as price regulations and tariffs, distribute income but reduce total welfare by introducing economic distortions. Other policies, such as public investments in research, food standards, or land reforms, may increase total welfare, but these policies come also with distributional effects. These distributional effects influence the preferences of interest groups and in turn influence policy decisions. Political considerations are therefore crucial to understand how agricultural and food policies are determined, to identify the constraints within which welfare-enhancing reforms are possible (or not), and finally to understand how coalitions can be created to stimulate growth and reduce poverty.
The Political Economy of Agricultural and Food Policies 1st Table of contents:
Part I. Part I
1. Introduction
2. Political Coalitions in Agricultural and Food Policies
3. Factors Influencing Policy Choices
Part II. Part II
4. The Development Paradox
5. Anti-Trade Bias and the Political Economy of Instrument Choice
6. Development Paradox and Anti-Trade Bias Revisited?
7. Policy Reform in History: Europe, the USA, and China
Part III. Part III
8. Food Price Volatility
9. Crises, Media, and Agricultural Development Policy
10. Food Standards
11. Public Investments in Agricultural and Food Research
12. Land and Institutional Reforms
13. Policy Interactions
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