TY - BOOK AU - Krueger,Anne O. AU - Schiff,Maurice W. AU - Valdés,Alberto TI - The political economy of agricultural pricing policy: a World Bank comparative study SN - 0801840309 AV - HD1417 .P65 1991 U1 - 338.1'8'091724 PY - 1991/// CY - Baltimore PB - Published for the World Bank [by] Johns Hopkins University Press KW - Agricultural prices KW - Agricultural prices---Government policy KW - Asia KW - Developing countries KW - Africa KW - Mediterranean Region KW - Latin America N1 - The political economy of agricultural pricing policy. v.2 Asia; Includes bibliographical references N2 - The purpose of this project was threefold: to provide systematic estimates of the degree of price discrimination against against agriculture within individual countries and to explain how it changed over time, to determine how this intervention affected such key variables as foreign exchange earnings, agricultural outputs, and income distribution; and to gain further insight into the political economy of agricultural pricing policy though a study of the motivation of policymakers, the economic and political factors determining the degree of agricultural intervention, and the attempts to reform unsuccessful policies ER -