Agricultural Price Distortions, Inequality, and Poverty

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Part I. Introduction -- 1. Introduction and Summary / Kym Anderson, John Cockburn, Will Martin -- Part II. Global CGE Approaches -- 2. Global Welfare and Poverty Effects: Linkage Model Results / Kym Anderson, Ernesto Valenzuela, Dominique van der Mensbrugghe -- 3. Global Poverty and Distributional Impacts: The GIDD Model / Maurizio Bussolo, Rafael De Hoyos, Denis Medvedev -- 4. Poverty Impacts in 15 Countries: The GTAP Model / Thomas W. Hertel, Roman Keeney -- Part III. National CGE Approaches: Asia -- 5. China / Fan Zhai, Thomas W. Hertel -- 6. Indonesia / Peter Warr -- 7. Pakistan / Caesar B. Cororaton, David Orden -- 8. The Philippines / Caesar B. Cororaton, Erwin Corong, John Cockburn -- 9. Thailand / Peter Warr -- Part IV. National CGE Approaches: Africa -- 10. Mozambique / Channing Arndt, James Thurlow -- 11. South Africa / Nicolas Herault, James Thurlow -- Part V. National CGE Approaches: Latin America -- 12. Argentina / Martin Cicowiez, Carolina Diaz-Bonilla, Eugenio Diaz-Bonilla -- 13. Brazil / Joaquim Bento de Souza Ferreira Filho, Mark Horridge -- 14. Nicaragua / Marco V. Saanchez, Rob Vos -- Appendix: Border Price and Export Demand Shocks in Developing Countries from Rest-of-the-World Trade Liberalization: The Linkage Model / Dominique van der Mensbrugghe, Ernesto Valenzuela, Kym Anderson -- Index. Publisher Marketing: Brings together global and national empirical studies that estimate the effects of policies that distort the world's agricultural markets and other trade on poverty and inequality globally, and in various developing countries. Review Citations: Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2010 pg. 106 (EAN 9780821381847, Paperback) Contributor Bio:  Anderson, Kym Kym Anderson is George Gollin Professor of Economics, School of Economics, University of Adelaide, Australia. During 2004 7 he was on extended leave at the World Bank's Development Research Group as Lead Economist, Trade Policy. Earlier, he spent 1990 92 at the Research Division of the GATT (now the WTO) Secretariat in Geneva. Professor Anderson has published approximately 300 articles and 40 books, including The Political Economy of Agricultural Protection (with Yujiro Hayami and others, which received the Tohata Memorial Award from Japan's National Institute for Research Advancement), Disarray in World Food Markets (with Rod Tyers, Cambridge University Press, 1992), New Silk Roads (Cambridge University Press, 1992), and Agricultural Trade Reform and the Doha Development Agenda (with Will Martin, which received the American Agricultural Economics Association's 2006 Quality of Communication Award and the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society's 2007 Quality of Research Discovery Prize). During 2006 9 Professor Anderson directed a large empirical research project for the World Bank on distortions to agricultural incentives, covering 75 countries. Four region-oriented books and two global-oriented books appeared in 2008 9 and 2009 10, respectively, from this research project, in addition to this present book. Contributor Bio:  Martin, Will WILL MARTIN is Lead Economist of the Development Research Group at the World Bank, Washington DC.