Research Catalog

Title

The bias against agriculture : trade and macroeconomic policies in developing countries / edited by Romeo M. Bautista and Alberto Valdés.

Publication

San Francisco, Calif. : International Center for Economic Growth Publication : ICS Press, c1993.

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Additional Authors

• Bautista, Romeo M., 1941-
• Valdés, Alberto, 1935-
• International Center for Economic Growth
• International Food Policy Research Institute

Description

xxii, 339 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Produce trade > Government policy > Case studies. > Developing countries
• Agriculture and state > Developing countries > Case studies
• Developing countries > Commercial policy > Case studies

Genre/Form

Case studies

Note

• "A copublication of the International Center for Economic Growth and the International Food Policy Research Institute."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-327) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• The relevance of trade and macroeconomic policies for agriculture / Romeo M. Bautista and Alberto Valdes -- Trade policies, relative prices, real incomes, and food consumption in Peru, 1964-1982 / David L. Franklin and Alberto Valdes -- Effects of the coffee boom and government expenditures on agricultural prices in Colombia / Jorge Garcia Garcia -- The oil boom, macroeconomic policies, and Nigerian agriculture : analysis of a "Dutch disease" phenomenon / T. Ademola Oyejide -- Agricultural pricing and the exchange rate in Zaire / Tshikala B. Tshibaka -- Industrial protection, foreign borrowing, and agricultural incentives in the Philippines / Romeo M. Bautista -- Effects of exchange rate and trade policies on agricultural prices in Pakistan / Paul Dorosh -- Agriculture and growth : the experience of Argentina, 1913-1984 / Yair Mundlak, Domingo Cavallo, and Roberto Domenech -- Chilean agriculture in a changing economic environment / Juan Eduardo Coeymans and Yair Mundlak.
• Development strategies, industrial policies, and agricultural incentives in Asia / Romeo M. Bautista -- The effects of trade and macroeconomic policies on agricultural incentives in Latin America / Jorge Garcia Garcia -- Effects of trade and macroeconomic policies on African agriculture / T. Ademola Oyejide -- Agricultural price stabilization and risk reduction in developing countries / Odin Knudsen and John Nash -- Some policy perspectives / Anne O. Krueger -- Toward more rational trade and macroeconomic policies for agriculture / Romeo M. Bautista and Alberto Valdes.

ISBN

1558152458

LCCN

^^^92036105^

OCLC

• 27014052
• SCSB-10565443

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library