… a product of the World Bank's research project on "Distortions to Agricultural Incentives",
led … The country case studies from which the key distortion estimates in this database are …

… direct price distortion that we aim to estimate. If, for instance, a country is large in world trade
… reform commitments been required at the time Japan joined in 1955 and Korea in 1967, in …

… their narratives and for generating the time series of distortion estimates that underpin the
studies. … During 2006–07, she was a consultant with this project in the Development Research …

… distortions. This paper draws on new empirical studies to show the changing extent of policy
distortions to prices faced by the world's … inefficiencies in global agricultural resource use. …

… If no agreement is forthcoming by early 2007, and if the US … on Tariffs and Trade in 1955
and 1967 respectively, had been … Better PSE-type estimates of the extent of price distortions …

… for estimating agricultural policy and trade distortions by … rapid economic growth from 1955
to 1964; (2) agriculture in a … restrained from 1995 to 2007. By the mid-1980s, the issue of …

… pattern of distortions to incentives conceptually and econometrically by making use of new
political economy theory and a new globally comprehensive and consistent set of estimates of …

… direct price distortion that we aim to estimate. If, for instance, a country is large in world trade
… For all other countries, the target start date has been 1955, especially if this date includes …

The authors are grateful for the distortions estimates provided by authors of the focus country
case studies, for assistance with spreadsheets by Johanna Croser, Esteban Jara, Marianne …

… directly or indirectly on agriculture for their main income (Ravallion et al., 2007; World Bank,
2007). As … For that reason, only producer distortions were estimated in the update to 2009 for …