TY - BOOK ID - 135381109 TI - Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in China and Southeast Asia AU - Anderson, Kym. AU - Martin, Will. PY - 2008 PB - Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, DB - UniCat KW - Agricultural Policy KW - Agricultural Sector Economics KW - Agricultural Trade KW - Agriculture KW - Beef KW - Cocoa KW - Consumers KW - Crops KW - Developing Countries KW - Economic Development KW - Exchange Rates KW - Expenditures KW - Financial Crisis KW - Gdp KW - Grains KW - Industrialization KW - International Food Policy Research Institute KW - Livestock KW - Low-Income Countries KW - Maize KW - Political Economy KW - Rice KW - Rural Development KW - Skilled Workers KW - Staple Foods KW - Sugar KW - Trade Barriers KW - Trade Liberalization KW - Trade Policy KW - Wheat KW - World Development Indicators KW - World Trade Organization UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135381109 AB - This chapter begins with a brief summary of economic growth and structural changes in the region since the 1950s and of agricultural and other economic policies as they affected agriculture before and after the various reforms, and in several cases fundamental regime changes, of the past half-century. It then summarizes new estimates of the nominal rate of assistance (NRA) and the relative rate of assistance (RRA) to farmers delivered by national farm and nonfarm policies over the past several decades (depending on data availability), and of those policies' impacts on consumer prices of farm products. Both farmer assistance and consumer taxation is negative in periods where there is an anti-agricultural, pro-urban consumer bias in a country's policy regime. The final sections summarize what the author have learned and draw out implications of the findings, including for poverty and inequality and for possible future directions of policies affecting agricultural incentives in this part of Asia. ER -