Industry has been the darling of development, certainly for the now-industrial countries, and more recently for the developing countries. Those with the reins of policy in developing countries decided that agriculture was impervious to price incentives, so they believed that taxing it would sacrifice little in output. Moreover, agricultural taxes were easy to administer and extremely attractive in countries with a thin tax base. Also, shifting scarce...
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1994/07/01
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2011/11/24
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Le pillage de l'agriculture dans les pays en développement
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Agricultural taxation
Citation
Schiff,Maurice; Valdes,Alberto.
The plundering of agriculture in developing countries : Le pillage de l'agriculture dans les pays en développement (French). EDI seminar paper|World Bank Institute (WBI)|no. 48*World Bank Institute (WBI) Washington DC ; World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/517261468336681607