Speakers:

• Kym Anderson, Professor of Economics at the University of Adelaide and Australian National University, and IFPRI board chair (Video | Presentation)
• Holger A. Kray, Head of the World Bank’s Africa Agricultural Policy Unit (Video | Presentation)
• David Laborde Debucquet, Senior research fellow, IFPRI (Video | Presentation )
• Pedro Martel, Chief for the environment, rural development, and disaster risk management division at Inter-American Development Bank (Video | Presentation)

Chair

• Anne O. Krueger, Senior research professor of international economics at Johns Hopkins University (Video)

Closing Remarks:

• Shenggen Fan, Director general at IFPRI (Video)
• Q&A Video

Agricultural incentives in many countries are still influenced by non-tariff measures such as tariff-rate-quotas, export bans, and export subsidies. So the analyses of global trade reform must be based on measures for as many countries as possible, including both the major agricultural producers and where many people are vulnerable to poverty.

Following up on the World Bank’s initiatives to measure agricultural incentives globally in the 1980s and 2000s, five international organizations – FAO, IADB, IFPRI, OECD, and the World Bank – have embarked on a new joint initiative to provide continually-updated estimates of agricultural incentives in more than 100 countries.

The seminar will focus on key results of this landmark collaboration.