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| Petrick, Martin. |
| This paper reviews three arguments why government should not directly finance public goods provision in the countryside: (1) sorting and voting of residents leads to efficient local public goods provision, (2) community governance may better cope with incomplete contracting in public goods, and (3) public provision drives out voluntary private provision of public goods. Theory and empirical evidence partly support these arguments. The adequate level of rural governance appears to be often below the European or national level, and policy should focus on the institutional premises of public goods provision rather than on centralized payments to public good providers. |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Rural areas; Public goods; Institutions; Agricultural policy reform; Public Economics. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/14961 |
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| Rae, Allan N.; Strutt, Anna. |
| The current WTO agricultural trade negotiations began in March 2000 and became part of the Doha Development Agenda in late 2001. The previous Uruguay Round reached agricultural agreements in the areas of market access, export competition and domestic support. The current round is seeking agreements under similar headings. The effort to reach agreement over reductions in domestic support to farmers is complicated by a number of factors,for example, the extent to which such support affects production decisions, the wishes of governments to support farmers for pursuing multifunctional outcomes from agriculture, and the categorisation of a myriad of policy instruments into green, blue and amber boxes. These complications pose the risk of considerably extending... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Agricultural policy reform; CGE modelling; Decoupled policies; Domestic support; WTO; International Relations/Trade. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/23881 |
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