The political economy of agricultural protection: East Asia in international perspective

Abstract

The following sections are included: Preface Introduction (Kym Anderson and Yujiro Hayami) Economic Growth, Structural Change and the Political Economy of Protection (Kym Anderson) The Growth of Agricultural Protection (Kym Anderson, Yujiro Hayami, and Masayoshi Honma) The Roots of Agricultural Protectionism (Yujiro Hayami) The Determinants of Agricultural Protection Levels: An Econometric Analysis (Masayoshi Honma and Yujiro Hayami) The Price, Trade and Welfare Effects of Agricultural Protection (Rodney Tyers and Kym Anderson) Revealed Preference in Japan’s Rice Policy (Keijiro Otsuka and Yujiro Hayami) The Peculiar Rationality of Beef Import Quotas in Japan and Korea (Kym Anderson) The Politics of Agricultural Protection in Japan (Aurelia George and Eric Saxon) Lessons and Implications (Kym Anderson and Yujiro Hayami) Appendix 1: Details of Agricultural Protection Estimates, 1955-82 (Kym Anderson, Yujiro Hayami, Masayoshi Honma, Eric Saxon, and Shun-Yi Shei) Appendix 2: Explanatory Variables Used in the Regression Analysis of Chapter 4 (Masayoshi Honma and Yujiro Hayami) Appendix 3: Details of the Simulation Model of World Grain and Meat Markets (Rod Tyers) Bibliography.