POLICY DEPENDENCY AND REFORM: ECONOMIC GAIN VERSUS POLITICAL PAINS / доклад на 25 конференции IAAE, Reshaping Agriculture’s Contribution to Society, International Convention Centre, Durban, South Africa, 16-23 August 2003
Опубликовано на портале: 31-12-2003
Durban, 2003
Тематический раздел:
Economic analysis condemns market intervention in favour of farmers as inefficient,
if not also ineffective,
and therefore well worth reform. Practical experience, however, indicates that such
lessons are hard to learn
and implement. Part of the reason appears to be that economic analysis seldom clearly
identifies the real
costs and benefits of reform, and seldom explains these sensibly to the relevant
constituencies.
Furthermore, economic analysis rarely explains why the protectionist measures were adopted in the first place, or explores the dependencies that these policies generate. Without these explanations, and without reform strategies that take full account of them, policy reform will continue to be reluctant, slow and frequently counterproductive. This paper reconsiders the evolution of farm policies and the economic assessment of their costs and benefits, and draws conclusions as to the general shape of reforms likely to reconcile economic efficiency with political acceptability. In so doing, it re-phrases conventional economic arguments in terms which seem to accord better with sensible intuition, which may prove more accessible and credible to policy makers and advisors. It concludes with a substantial challenge to the agricultural economics profession. |

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Ключевые слова
agriculture cost-benefit analysis liberalisation policy dependency policy reform political negotiations
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