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Trade policy reforms in recent decades have sharply reduced the distortions that were harming agriculture in developing countries. Yet global trade in farm products continues to be far more distorted than trade in nonfarm goods, and in ways that reduce some forms of poverty and inequality but worsen others, so the net effects are unclear without empirical modeling. Using a new set of estimates of agricultural price distortions, this book brings together economy-wide global and national empirical studies that focus on the net effects of the remaining distortions to world merchandise trade on po

Agricultural prices -- Government policy. --- Agricultural wages -- Developing countries. --- Farm income -- Developing countries. --- Poverty. --- Agricultural prices --- Farm income --- Agricultural wages --- Poverty --- Agricultural Economics --- Business & Economics --- Government policy --- Government policy. --- Destitution --- Agricultural income --- Agricultural laborers --- Wages --- Wealth --- Basic needs --- Begging --- Poor --- Subsistence economy --- Income