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Assistance to Australian agriculture from Federation to World War II

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  • Lloyd, Peter
  • MacLaren, Donald

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This paper quantifies the levels of assistance received by producers of the major agricultural crops and animal products in Australia from Federation to the end of World War II. We outline the history of government assistance to the sector after Federation. Six measures of assistance are examined. Then the nominal rates of assistance from these measures are calculated for 20 agricultural products, 14 of which are classified as exportables and 6 as importables. From these product measures of assistance, we construct a series of the production-weighted average nominal rate of assistance for the group of exportable products and for the group of importable products and for the whole sector. Our results show that, from the time of Federation, the pattern of assistance to the sector discriminated persistently and heavily against the exportable agricultural products.

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  • Lloyd, Peter & MacLaren, Donald, 2015. "Assistance to Australian agriculture from Federation to World War II," Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, vol. 59(3), July.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:aareaj:283207
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.283207
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    1. Kym Anderson, 2020. "Trade Protectionism In Australia: Its Growth And Dismantling," Journal of Economic Surveys, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 34(5), pages 1044-1067, December.
    2. Nicolás Grinberg, 2021. "Ground‐Rent and Capital Accumulation in Australia," Australian Economic Review, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, vol. 54(2), pages 231-254, June.
    3. Roger G. Mauldon, 2021. "Early Analytical Agricultural Economics in Australia," Australian Economic History Review, Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand, vol. 61(1), pages 45-63, March.

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