A Billion Dollars a Day: The Economics and Politics of Agricultural Subsidies
Book Details
Author(s)
E. Wesley F. Peterson
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN / ASIN
1405185864
ISBN-13
9781405185868
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#1,543,893
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Description
In a lively, non-technical, and up-to-date account, this book addresses the core questions that surround the issues of agricultural subsidies.
- Explores these questions: Why do we have subsidies? How did they evolve? What is the present and possible future of subsidies? What is their impact on a typical African farmer?
- Written for the general public, this book will also be useful for courses in Agricultural Policy
- Provides a detailed examination of subsidy histories and the current policies of the United States, various European countries, Australia and New Zealand, and Korea and Japan
- Includes a discussion of how these policies affect developing countries—examining, in particular, their impact on many African farmers
