Measuring distortions to agricultural incentives, revisited*

By K. Anderson, M. Kurzweil, Will Martin, D. Sandri, E. Valenzuela. World Trade Review, 2008

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Abstract Notwithstanding the tariffication component of the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture, import tariffs on farm products continue to provide an incomplete indication of the extent to which agricultural producer and consumer incentives are distorted in national markets. As well, in developing countries especially, non-agricultural policies indirectly impact on agricultural and food markets. Empirical analysis aimed at monitoring distortions to agricultural incentives thus need to examine both agricultural and non-agricultural policy measures including import or export taxes, subsidies, and quantitative restrictions plus domestic taxes or subsidies on farm outputs or inputs and consumer subsidies for food staples. This paper addresses the practical methodological issues that need to be faced when attempting to undertake such a measurement task in developing countries. The approach is illustrated in two ways: by presenting estimates of nominal and relative rates of assistance to farmers in China for the period 1981–2005; and by summarizing estimates from an economy-wide CGE model of the effects on agricultural versus non-agricultural markets of the project's measured distortions globally as of 2004.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

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Trade Barrier Volatility and Agricultural Price Stabilization (2012, methodology): “For details of the methodology for estimating the NRAs and CTEs, see Anderson et al. (2008).”
Political Economy of Public Policies: Insights from Distortions to Agricultural and Food Markets (2013, unknown): “6 Anderson et al. (2008) explain that the NRA estimates for nonagricultural tradables are a weighted average of assistance to manufacturing and to nonfarm primary production, using sectoral GDPs as weights.”
Global food prices, regime type, and urban unrest in the developing world (2015, methodology): “In order to model the degree of urban/rural bias in food-related policy interventions, we use the Estimates of Distortions to Agricultural Incentives data (Anderson et al., 2008).”
Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Asia (2009, methodology): “A summary of the methodology follows, and additional details may be found in Anderson et al. (2008) and in appendix A.”