Agricultural Price Distortions, Poverty, and Inequality in the Philippines

Cororaton, Caesar B ; Corong, Erwin ; Cockburn, John

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES;    AGRICULTURAL INCENTIVES;    AGRICULTURAL OUTPUT;    AGRICULTURAL PRICE;    AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION;   

RP-ID  :  55940

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

This paper analyzes the poverty andinequality implications of removing agricultural andnon-agricultural price distortions in the domestic market ofthe Philippines and abroad. Liberalization in the rest ofthe world is poverty and inequality reducing, whereas fulldomestic liberalization increases national poverty andinequality. Poverty declines while inequality increasesmarginally in the combined scenario of both global anddomestic agriculture reform. Although the reduction in thenational poverty headcount is small in the latter scenario,the poorest of the poor, particularly those living in therural areas, emerge as 'winners', given theirstrong reliance on agricultural production and unskilledlabor wages.