Reducing Distortions to Agricultural Incentives: Progress, Pitfalls, and Prospects

Most of the world’s poorest people depend farming for their livelihood. Earnings from in low-income countries are depressed due to a pro-urban bias in own-country , and partly because richer countries (including some developing countries) favor farmers with import barriers and subsidies. sets of policies reduce national and economic growth and add to inequality poverty in developing countries. Acknowledgement that since the 1980s has given rise greater pressures for reform, both internal external.