A Billion Dollars a Day: The Economics and Politics of Agricultural Subsidies

A Billion Dollars a Day: The Economics and Politics of Agricultural Subsidies

by E. Wesley F. Peterson

320 pages· 2009· ISBN 9781405185868

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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

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