Agricultural economics and distribution effects: Presidential Address to the 25th Conference of the International Association of Agricultural Economists, August 16-22, 2003, Durban, South Africa

In this address, I highlight the large and growing national and international inequalities related to agriculture and rural areas, which threaten peace, growth, and sustainable development; I argue that we ought to rethink the nature and implications of distributional effects in agriculture and rura...

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Main Author: von Braun, Joachim
Format: Ponencia
Language:Inglés
Published: 2003
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/157820
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Summary:In this address, I highlight the large and growing national and international inequalities related to agriculture and rural areas, which threaten peace, growth, and sustainable development; I argue that we ought to rethink the nature and implications of distributional effects in agriculture and rural areas; I argue for moving from partial to more holistic thinking about distributional effects, and offer suggestions on what to do about them. -- from text.