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The Political Economy of Agricultural and Food Policies

系列名：Palgrave Studies in Agricultural Economics and
ISBN13：9781137501011
出版社：Palgrave Macmillan
作者：Johan Swinnen
裝訂／頁數：精裝／254頁
規格：21.6cm*15.2cm*2.5cm (高/寬/厚)
出版日：2018/06/20
關鍵字： The Political Economy of Agricultural and Food Policies、 The、 Political、 Economy、 of、 Agricultural、 and、 Food、 Policies、 Palgrave Macmillan、 Johan Swinnen、外文書、 General management、

杜威圖書分類： General management

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Food and agriculture have been subject to heavy-handed government interventions throughout much of history and across the globe, both in developing and in developed countries. Today, more than half a trillion US dollars are spent by some governments to support farmers, while other governments impose regulations and taxes that hurt farmers. Some policies, such as price regulations and tariffs, distribute income but reduce total welfare by introducing economic distortions. Other policies, such as public investments in research, food standards, or land reforms, may increase total welfare, but these policies come also with distributional effects. These distributional effects influence the preferences of interest groups and in turn influence policy decisions. Political considerations are therefore crucial to understand how agricultural and food policies are determined, to identify the constraints within which welfare-enhancing reforms are possible (or not), and finally to understand how coalitions can be created to stimulate growth and reduce poverty.

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Johan Swinnen is Professor of Economics and Director of the LICOS-Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance at the University of Leuven, Belgium. He is also Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels, a part-time Visiting Professor at the Centre for Food Security and the Environment at Stanford University, USA, and Mercator Fellow at the University of Gottingen, Germany. Swinnen has previously served as President of the International Association of Agricultural Economists, Lead Economist at the World Bank, and Economic Advisor at the European Commission.