Political institutions, inequality, and agricultural growth
Subtitle: the public expenditure connection
By: Daniel Lederman, Hunt Allcott, Ramon Lopez
Contributors: Allcott, Hunt; World Bank
Series: Policy research working paper -- 3902; Policy research working papers (Online) -- 3902.
Publisher: World Bank
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Subjects: Appropriations and expenditures; Subsidies; Income distribution
Description: "This paper brings together the literatures on the political economy of public expenditures and the determinants of economic growth.  Based on a new dataset of rural public expenditures in a panel of Latin American economies, the econometric evidence suggests that non-social subsidies reduce agricultural GDP.  Furthermore, the evidence suggests that political and institutional factors as well as income inequality are determinants of the size and structure of rural public expenditures, through which they have large and significant effects on agricultural GDP. "--World Bank web site.
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