Agricultural Policies in Non-OECD Countries 2007
Monitoring and Evaluation
The agricultural sector and related support policies of many OECD trading partners are changing rapidly. This report monitors agricultural policy developments in Brazil, Bulgaria, China, India, Romania, Russia, South Africa and Ukraine following the same approach applied to OECD countries, providing a common benchmark for evaluating reforms and for facilitating international dialogue. A comprehensive statistical annex containing a wide range of contextual information for these countries is also included. This book includes StatLinks, URLs under tables and graphs linking to Excel® spreadsheet files containing the underlying data.
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Brazil
Following several years of prodigious growth, the agricultural sector was afflicted in 2005 by a price-cost squeeze that resulted from a combination of falling international prices for important export commodities, rising input costs (notably for fuel) and an appreciating exchange rate. Policy initiatives in 2005/06 were primarily designed to mitigate this development.
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