Revised and updated, this edition makes use of new empirical material to examine the effect of market and trade restrictions on farm people. It argues that these policies have little or no effect on the welfare of such communities.
World Agriculture in Disarray
This book was first published in 1992.
Agricultural Policy in Disarray provides fascinating, detailed, and contemporary evidence of how rent-seeking by small, well-organized interest groups results in government policies that do little good and much harm.
Muslim World Agriculture in Disarray: An Agenda for Collective Self-reliant Development
Provides a context for understanding the agricultural aspects of the GATT, the CAP, and EC-U.S. relations
No attempt is made to narrate the policy and political background that had led to what has been termed disarray in world agricultural markets . The reader can find many specialized works on the subject , e.g. Johnson , D. G. ( 1991 ) ...
However , this explanation fails to account for the fact that in many low - income countries , consumers apparently do pay close attention to food prices , as frequent food riots clearly demonstrate ( Schultz 1978 ; Bates 1981 , 1983 ...
This volume is the third in a series (other volumes cover Asia, Europe s transition economies, and Latin America and the Caribbean) that not only fills that void for recent years but extends the estimates in a consistent and comparable way ...
This volume is the second in a series (other volumes cover Africa, Asia, and Europe's transition economies) that not only fills that void for recent years but extends the estimates in a consistent and comparable way back in time and ...
This volume is the first in a series (other volumes cover Africa, Asia, and Latin America) that not only fill that void for recent years but extend the estimates in a consistent and comparable way back in time--and provide analytical ...