Regulatory Constraints to Agricultural Productivity

The economic thinking around the role of agriculture for development has evolved since the 1950s. Over the past decades, the agriculture sector has been rediscovered as a sector with great potential for triggering growth, reducing poverty and inequ...

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Main Authors:	Divanbeigi, Raian, Saliola, Federica
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2017
Subjects:	AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY REGULATION AGRIBUSINESS BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT LEGAL INSTITUTIONS STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/908591505911928634/Regulatory-constraints-to-agricultural-productivity http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28377

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spelling	okr-10986-283772021-06-08T14:42:48Z Regulatory Constraints to Agricultural Productivity Divanbeigi, Raian Saliola, Federica AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY REGULATION AGRIBUSINESS BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT LEGAL INSTITUTIONS STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION The economic thinking around the role of agriculture for development has evolved since the 1950s. Over the past decades, the agriculture sector has been rediscovered as a sector with great potential for triggering growth, reducing poverty and inequality, providing food security, and delivering environmental services. This paper contributes to the literature on the determinants of agricultural development by investigating the role played by laws and regulations. First, the paper proposes new measures of regulatory quality and regulatory efficiency in agriculture. Second, the paper employs cross-section data to test the relationship of the proposed measures with agricultural performance. The results indicate that agricultural productivity is on average higher where transaction costs imposed by regulations are lower and where countries adhere to more regulatory good practices. This relationship is stronger when low transaction costs and regulatory good practices are combined. 2017-09-21T21:22:38Z 2017-09-21T21:22:38Z 2017-09 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/908591505911928634/Regulatory-constraints-to-agricultural-productivity http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28377 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8199 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
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topic	AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY REGULATION AGRIBUSINESS BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT LEGAL INSTITUTIONS STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION
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relation	Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8199
description	The economic thinking around the role of agriculture for development has evolved since the 1950s. Over the past decades, the agriculture sector has been rediscovered as a sector with great potential for triggering growth, reducing poverty and inequality, providing food security, and delivering environmental services. This paper contributes to the literature on the determinants of agricultural development by investigating the role played by laws and regulations. First, the paper proposes new measures of regulatory quality and regulatory efficiency in agriculture. Second, the paper employs cross-section data to test the relationship of the proposed measures with agricultural performance. The results indicate that agricultural productivity is on average higher where transaction costs imposed by regulations are lower and where countries adhere to more regulatory good practices. This relationship is stronger when low transaction costs and regulatory good practices are combined.
format	Working Paper
author	Divanbeigi, Raian Saliola, Federica
author_facet	Divanbeigi, Raian Saliola, Federica
author_sort	Divanbeigi, Raian
title	Regulatory Constraints to Agricultural Productivity
title_short	Regulatory Constraints to Agricultural Productivity
title_full	Regulatory Constraints to Agricultural Productivity
title_fullStr	Regulatory Constraints to Agricultural Productivity
title_full_unstemmed	Regulatory Constraints to Agricultural Productivity
title_sort	regulatory constraints to agricultural productivity
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2017
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Regulatory Constraints to Agricultural Productivity

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