Barners to agricultural trade durmg the colonial era and up to 1961 were imposed mamly to raise revenue. Accordingly, the barriers were export taxes rather than import tariffs. With the adoption of import substitution as a development philosophy, a more aggressive tariff pohcy was pursued. Thus,...

This study examines three alternative public policies to expand growth in Canadian agncultural production and trade: an approximately 50 percent increase in publicly-funded research and development, a 2 percent subsidy on exports for expanded market development, and a 25 percent reduct10n m the...

This paper sets up an empirical framework to examine the relat10nsh1p between monetary po hey and relative prices of agncultural commod1t1es and the impacts of agncultural shocks on relative prices and the money supply. The observed poltcy mterrelat1onsh1ps between macroeconom1cs and agnculture...