This book provides an overview of the evolution of distortions to agricultural incentives caused by price and trade policies in the world bank defined region of latin america and the caribbean following the introduction and summary it includes commissioned country studies of one caribbean one central american and six south american economies the chapters are followed by two appendixes . This book provides an overview of the evolution of distortions to agricultural incentives caused by price and trade policies in the world bank defined region of latin america and the caribbean following the introduction and summary it includes commissioned country studies of one caribbean one central american and six south american economies the chapters are followed by two appendixes . Distortions to agricultural incentives in latin america provides an overview of the evolution of distortions to agricultural incentives caused by price and trade policies in five economies of south america plus the dominican republic nicaragua and mexico together these countries comprise about 80 percent of the regions population agricultural output and overall gdp the new empirical . This book provides an overview of the evolution of distortions to agricultural incentives caused by price and trade policies in the world bank defined region of latin america and the caribbean following the introduction and summary it includes commissioned country studies of one caribbean one central american and six south american economies. The annual time series of estimates of the extent of agricultural price distortions in both advanced and developing economies is now updated every six months by the international organisations consortium for measuring the policy environment for agriculture which includes the world bank and is freely accessible at wwwag incentivesorg