The role of agricultural taxation and anti-agriculture bias in economic growth
By: by Alexander H. Sarris.
Contributors: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
Series: FAO economic and social development paper; 150
Publisher: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Rome
Language: eng
Number of pages: 92
Subjects: Agriculture -- Taxation.
Notes: Text in English with summaries in English, French, Spanish and Arabic.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 89-92)
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction 1; title: 2. Agriculture, development and growth 3; title: 3. The domestic terms of trade, and the relationship between agricultural and overall growth. 13; title: 4. Types and measures of anti-agriculture bias. 20; title: 5. Conceptual issues in thinking about anti-agriculture bias 24; title: 6. A two-sector closed economy model of agricultural adjustment and growth. 27; title: 7. International trade in the basic model 38; title: 8. Tax policy in the two-sector model. 45; title: 9. Infrastructure and growth in the two sector model 54; title: 10. Taxation and public sector strategy towards agriculture and industry 62; title: 11. Discussion of the theoretical results in light of previous empirical studies 79; title: 12. Conclusions, caveats, and extensions 84.