Kym Anderson

Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Asia Kym Anderson

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Map: The Focus Economies of Asia -- Part I. Introduction -- 1. Introduction and Summary / Kym Anderson, Will Martin -- Part II. Northeast Asia -- 2. Republic of Korea and Taiwan, China / Masayoshi Honma, Yujiro Hayami -- 3. China / Jikun Huang, Scott Rozelle, Will Martin, Yu Liu -- Part III. Southeast Asia -- 4. Indonesia / George Fane, Peter Warr -- 5. Malaysia / Prema-Chandra Athukorala, Wai-Heng Loke -- 6. The Philippines / Cristina David, Ponciano Intal, Arsenio M. Balisacan -- 7. Thailand / Peter Warr, Archanun Kohpaiboon -- 8. Vietnam / Prema-Chandra Athukorala, Pham Lan Huong, Vo Tri Thanh -- Part IV. South Asia -- 9. Bangladesh / Nazneen Ahmed, Zaid Bakht, Paul A. Dorosh, Quazi Shahabuddin -- 10. India / Garry Pursell, Ashok Gulati, Kanupriya Gupta -- 11. Pakistan / Paul A. Dorosh, Abdul Salam -- 12. Sri Lanka / Jayatilleke Bandara, Sisira Jayasuriya -- Appendix A. Methodology for Measuring Distortions to Agricultural Incentives / Kym Anderson, Marianne Kurzweil, Will Martin, Damiano Sandri, Ernesto Valenzuela -- Appendix B. Annual Estimates of Asian Distortions to Agricultural Incentives / Ernesto Valenzuela, Marianne Kurzweil, Johanna Croser, Signe Nelgen, Kym Anderson -- Index -- Figures -- 1.1. Index of Real Per Capita GDP, Asia Relative to the United States, 1950-2006 -- 1.2. NRAs in Agriculture, Asian Focus Economies, 1980-84 and 2000-04 -- 1.3. NRAs, by Product, Asian Focus Economies, 1980-84 and 2000-04 -- 1.4. NRAs for Rice, Milk, and Sugar, Asian Focus Economies, 1980-84 and 2000-04 -- 1.5. NRAs for Exportable, Import-Competing, and All Agricultural Products, Asian Focus Economies, 1955-2004 -- 1.6. NRAs for Agricultural and Nonagricultural Tradables and the RRA, Asian Focus Economies, 1955-2004. Review Citations: Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2009 pg. 107 (EAN 9780821376621, Paperback) Contributor Bio:  Anderson, Kym Kym Anderson is George Gollin Professor of Economics, School of Economics, University of Adelaide, Australia. During 2004 7 he was on extended leave at the World Bank's Development Research Group as Lead Economist, Trade Policy. Earlier, he spent 1990 92 at the Research Division of the GATT (now the WTO) Secretariat in Geneva. Professor Anderson has published approximately 300 articles and 40 books, including The Political Economy of Agricultural Protection (with Yujiro Hayami and others, which received the Tohata Memorial Award from Japan's National Institute for Research Advancement), Disarray in World Food Markets (with Rod Tyers, Cambridge University Press, 1992), New Silk Roads (Cambridge University Press, 1992), and Agricultural Trade Reform and the Doha Development Agenda (with Will Martin, which received the American Agricultural Economics Association's 2006 Quality of Communication Award and the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society's 2007 Quality of Research Discovery Prize). During 2006 9 Professor Anderson directed a large empirical research project for the World Bank on distortions to agricultural incentives, covering 75 countries. Four region-oriented books and two global-oriented books appeared in 2008 9 and 2009 10, respectively, from this research project, in addition to this present book. Contributor Bio:  Martin, Will WILL MARTIN is Lead Economist of the Development Research Group at the World Bank, Washington DC.