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Using Energy Resources to Diversify the Economy: Agricultural Price Distortions in Kazakhstan

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  • Richard Pomfret

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The agricultural sector in Kazakhstan experienced declining output throughout the 1990s, partly because relative prices shifted from being distorted in favor of farmers to being distorted against them. After the end of the decade public policy shifted towards support for (or less discrimination against) agriculture, boosted by a billion-dollar Agriculture and Food Program for 2003-5, which was made possible by booming oil revenues. This paper provides estimates of producer support for the main agricultural products in Kazakhstan, and analyses the consequences of shifts in farm support policy. Methodologically, the paper's primary concerns are how to capture the direction and magnitude of price distortions, how to interpret the measures, and what are the policy implications.

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  • Richard Pomfret, 2007. "Using Energy Resources to Diversify the Economy: Agricultural Price Distortions in Kazakhstan," CASE Network Studies and Analyses 0355, CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research.
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    1. Vantomme, Katharina, 2017. "Labour rationing of different farm types in Kazakhstan: A shadow price analysis," Studies on the Agricultural and Food Sector in Transition Economies 269557, Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO).
    2. Richard Pomfret, 2011. "Exploiting Energy and Mineral Resources in Central Asia, Azerbaijan and Mongolia," Comparative Economic Studies, Palgrave Macmillan;Association for Comparative Economic Studies, vol. 53(1), pages 5-33, March.
    3. repec:zbw:iamost:269557 is not listed on IDEAS
    4. Vasilyeva, Olga, 2021. "Agro-food clusters in the Republic of Kazakhstan: assessment and prospects of development," Economic Consultant, Roman I. Ostapenko, vol. 34(2), pages 13-20.
    5. Vantomme, Katharina, 2017. "Labour rationing of different farm types in Kazakhstan: A shadow price analysis," Studies on the Agricultural and Food Sector in Transition Economies, Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO), volume 88, number 88.

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    Keywords

    Kazakhstan; diversification; agriculture;
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    JEL classification:

    • Q18 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agricultural Policy; Food Policy; Animal Welfare Policy
    • Q32 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Nonrenewable Resources and Conservation - - - Exhaustible Resources and Economic Development
    • O13 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Agriculture; Natural Resources; Environment; Other Primary Products
    • F14 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Empirical Studies of Trade

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