Distribution of Agricultural NRAs across Countries and Products, 1955-84 and 1985-2007

Anderson, Kym ; Croser, Johanna

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: AGRICULTURAL EXPORTS;    AGRICULTURAL OUTPUT;    AGRICULTURAL POLICIES;    AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION;    AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS;   

RP-ID  :  55963

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

The global database developed as anintegral part of the World Bank's research project onDistortions to Agricultural Incentives, which is publiclyavailable, provides around 30,000 estimates of nominal ratesassistance to agricultural industries (NRAs) and associatedconsumer tax equivalents for 75 countries that togetheraccount for between 90 and 95 percent of the world'spopulation, farmers, agricultural output and total GrossDomestic Product (GDP). They also account for more than 85percent of farm production and employment in each of Africa,Asia, Latin America and the transition economies of Europeand Central Asia as well as all Organization for EconomicCo-operation and Development (OECD) countries. More than 70products are included (an average of 11 per country), whichrepresents around 70 percent of the gross value ofagricultural production in each of the focus countries, andjust under two-thirds of global farm production valued atundistorted prices over the period covered. Not allcountries had data for all of the entire 1955-2007 period,but the average number of years covered is 41 per country.This paper provides details of the coverage of the database.It also summarizes the distributions of the NRAs by showingtwo sets of Box plots for 1955-84 and 1985-2007, one set forvarious regions of the world, the other for all the coveredproducts for each focus country.