期刊名称：OECD Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Working Papers
电子版ISSN：1815-6797
出版年度：2014
期号：67
DOI：10.1787/5jz48305h4vd-en
出版社：Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
摘要：The key contribution of this report lies in developing a typology to structure thecomponents of the enabling environment for agricultural growth and competitiveness, andin constructing an illustrative Agricultural Growth Enabling Index (AGEI) to summarisea wide array of available information in a coherent manner. The construction of thepreliminary AGEI is based on four blocks with 40% of the weight on agriculture/ruralfactors and 20% each on broader economy-wide governance, capital availability andmarket operation. The AGEI can be used to provide across-country comparisons orsingle-country evaluations using the index itself or its components. It allows thedecomposition within each main block to show the relative strength and weaknesses ofeach country across various sub-indices. It has been applied here to a selected set oftwenty emerging and developing countries. The preliminary results demonstrate that theAGEI brings together information relevant to the enabling environment for agriculturalgrowth and competitiveness, and which is largely consistent with more in-depth studies ofthe selected countries. While constrained in some respects, the AGEI appears to be thefirst index completed with this objective. Further expansion and refinement of theincluded set of indicators to better reflect key determinants of agriculture’s enablingenvironment would help provide an important input into better policy decisions.The authors thank Florence Bossard for statistical assistance, and Anita Lari forformatting and preparing this report for publication.This report was declassified by Working Party for Agricultural Policies and Marketsin March 2014 (TAD/CA/APM/WP(2013)32/FINAL).
关键词：Enabling environment for agriculture; agricultural growth and;competitiveness; typology; agricultural indicators and indices; agricultural performance;determinants of agricultural growth; agricultural policy; agricultural productivity.
