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Agricultural trade liberalization: growth, welfare and large country effects

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  • Kirit S. Parikh
  • N.S.S. Narayana
  • Manoj Panda
  • A. Ganesh Kumar

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The impacts of trade liberalization for India have been examined with an applied general equilibrium model with nine agricultural actors, one non‐tradeable nonagriculture sector and one tradeable nortagriculture sector and with live rural and live urban expenditure classes. Different scenarios are generated using the model. Since comparison of GDP in two alternative scenarios can be misleading, the policy alternatives are assessed on the basis of their impact on welfare in terms of equivalent incomes of different expenditure classes. A policy is assessed preferable only when the distribution of welfare is found to be preferable in a well defined way. It demonstrates the importance of accounting for large country effects in rice trade and estimates the welfare optimal tariff/quota for rice exports for India—which is shown to be just half a million tons of net export of rice. The results also show that nonagricultural trade liberalization is even more important for agriculture than even agricultural trade liberalization, both of which help accelerate growth.

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  • Kirit S. Parikh & N.S.S. Narayana & Manoj Panda & A. Ganesh Kumar, 1997. "Agricultural trade liberalization: growth, welfare and large country effects," Agricultural Economics, International Association of Agricultural Economists, vol. 17(1), pages 1-20, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:agecon:v:17:y:1997:i:1:p:1-20
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-0862.1997.tb00460.x
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