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Library Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Australia and New Zealand

Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Australia and New Zealand

Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Australia and New Zealand

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September 2008
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handle:10986/28184
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In 1990, Australia and New Zealand were ranked around 25th and 37th in terms of Gross National Product (GNP) per capita, having been the highest-income countries in the world one hundred years earlier. Those countries relatively poor economic growth performance over that long period contrasts markedly with that of the past 15 years, when these two economies out-performed most other high-income countries. This difference in growth performance is due to major economic policy reforms during the past two to three decades, both at and behind the border. The report provide new evidence on the extent of governmental distortions to agricultural incentives in particular in the Australian and New Zealand economies since the late 1940s, both directly due to agricultural policies per se and indirectly (and negatively) through protection to manufacturing.

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Anderson, Kym
Lattimore, Ralph
Lloyd, Peter
MacLaren, Donald

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