Consequently, it is useful for any one country to learn from the institutional experiments conducted in other countries, to imitate their successes, and to avoid repeating the mistakes made abroad as well as at home. The data and institutional details assembled in this book greatly facilitate such cross-country comparisons. Of course, although the five countries studied in Paying for Agricultural Productivity share many important characteristics, they differ in important ways with respect to fundamental political institutions, infrastructure, and the organization of the agricultural sector. This study represents an important step in collecting and assessing the information needed. Contributors to the book are Julian M. Alston, Jason E. Christian, Barbara J. Craig, Michael S. Harris, Veronica Jacobsen, John D. Mullen, Philip G. Pardey, Michael Phillips, Jenifer Piesse, Johannes Roseboom, Hans Rutten, Grant M. Scobie, Vincent H. Smith, and Colin Thirtle.
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