Research Catalog

Title

Economía política de las intervenciones de precios agrícolas en América Latina / Anne O. Krueger, Maurice Schiff, Alberto Valdés, editores.

Publication

San Francisco, Calif. : Banco Mundial ; Centro Internacional para el Desarrollo Económico, afiliado al Instituto de Estudios Contemporáneos, 1990.

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Additional Authors

• Krueger, Anne O.
• Schiff, Maurice W.
• Valdés, Alberto, 1935-

Description

x, 470 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

This report summarizes the results of an agricultural study in Latin America. The project employed a common analytical framework and entailed close collaboration between the investigators and the project's three codirectors. This volume deals with the five countries studied in Latin America: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and the Dominican Republic. The purpose of the project was threefold: to provide systematic estimates of the degree of price discrimination against agriculture within individual countries and to explain how it changed over time; to determine how this intervention affected such key variables as foreign exchange earnings, agricultural output, and income distribution; and to gain further insight into the political economy of agricultural pricing policy through a study of the motivations of policymakers, the economic and political factors determining the degree of agricultural intervention, and the attempts to reform unsuccessful policies.

Series Statement

World Bank comparative studies

Uniform Title

World Bank comparative studies.

Subject

• Agricultural prices > Latin America
• Agriculture and state > Latin America

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

1558151168

LCCN

^^^91166385^

OCLC

• 24142343
• SCSB-11005644

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library