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Alternative Policies to Agricultural Export Taxes That Are Less Market Distorting

  • by William M. Liefert and Paul Westcott
  • 6/9/2015
  • ERR-187

Overview

Many economists believe that export restrictions increase world prices for food commodities, thereby exacerbating food insecurity and poverty among the world's poorest people. The authors examine alternative policies to a conventional export tax that are less market distorting and less welfare diminishing.

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