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The key contribution of this report lies in developing a typology to structure the components of the enabling environment for agricultural growth and competitiveness, and in constructing an illustrative Agricultural Growth Enabling Index (AGEI) to summarise a wide array of available information in a coherent manner. The construction of the preliminary AGEI is based on four blocks with 40% of the weight on agriculture/rural factors and 20% each on broader economy-wide governance, capital availability and market operation. The AGEI can be used to provide across-country comparisons or single-country evaluations using the index itself or its components. It allows the decomposition within each main block to show the relative strength and weaknesses of each country across various sub-indices. It has been applied here to a selected set of twenty emerging and developing countries. The preliminary results demonstrate that the AGEI brings together information relevant to the enabling environment for agricultural growth and competitiveness, and which is largely consistent with more in-depth studies of the selected countries. While constrained in some respects, the AGEI appears to be the first index completed with this objective. Further expansion and refinement of the included set of indicators to better reflect key determinants of agriculture’s enabling environment would help provide an important input into better policy decisions.

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Based on original research by the Food and Resource Economic Institute in Denmark and the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington DC, this book addresses the controversial issue of the effects of developed countries' agricultural policies on developing countries. Written from the perspective of developing countries, it addresses the main issues raised by developing countries' governments, politicians, farmers organizations, NGOs, trade specialists and development specialists. It focuses on the key issues of food security, poverty, regional agreements, multifunctionality in a

Economic policy and planning (general) --- Third World: agricultural and food problems --- World Trade Organization --- Produce trade --- Agriculture and state. --- Foreign trade regulation. --- Produits agricoles --- Politique agricole --- Commerce extérieur --- Government policy. --- Commerce --- Politique gouvernementale --- Réglementation --- World Trade Organization. --- Agriculture and state --- Foreign trade regulation --- Government policy --- OMC --- WTO --- Sécurité alimentaire --- food security --- Pauvreté --- Poverty --- Politique alimentaire --- Food policies --- Agricultural policies --- Politique économique --- Economic policies --- Contexte économique --- economic environment --- Pays en développement --- Developing countries --- Pays développé --- Developed countries --- Accord commercial --- Trade agreements --- Barrière commerciale --- trade barriers --- Commerce extérieur --- Réglementation --- WTO. --- Developing countries: agricultural and food problems --- Produce trade - Developing countries --- Produce trade - Government policy