To what extent has Sub-Saharan Africa's slow economic growth over the past five decades been due to price and trade policies that discouraged production of agricultural relative to non-agricultural tradables? This paper uses a new set of estimates of policy induced distortions to relative agricultural prices to address this question econometrically. First, the authors test if these policy distortions respond to economic growth, using rainfall and...
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INFORMACIÓN
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2012/09/01
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Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas
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WPS6206
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2012/09/01
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Disclosed
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Distortions to agriculture and economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
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agricultural price