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2018 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel

11. Public Investments in Agricultural and Food Research

verfasst von : Johan Swinnen

Erschienen in: The Political Economy of Agricultural and Food Policies

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

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Abstract

Public investment in agricultural research is an important source of productivity growth. However, there is underinvestment in research in both poor and rich countries. This chapter uses political economy analysis to explain why there is underinvestment in both rich and poor countries if these investments have such high social rates of returns.

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Vorheriges Kapitel Food Standards
Nächstes Kapitel Land and Institutional Reforms
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1
For a more complex model, with more inputs on consumer and producer effects, see Alston (2018).
 
2
To measure the net welfare effect, one has to take into account the tax costs to finance PARI.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Public Investments in Agricultural and Food Research
verfasst von
Johan Swinnen
Copyright-Jahr
2018
Buch
The Political Economy of Agricultural and Food Policies

Print ISBN: 978-1-137-50101-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-137-50102-8

Copyright-Jahr: 2018

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50102-8_11

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