Focuses on the effects of Nigeria's trade and exchange rate policies on agricultural incentives especially during the 1970s, the period of the oil boom. Attempts to determine the degree of protection granted to agriculture compared with other sectors, and assesses how these policies affected the allocation of resources both within agriculture and among the other sectors.

Research report, trade policy, exchange rate, agricultural policy, agricultural production, agriculture, Zaire since 1960 - economic policy, economic analysis, economic development, food import volume, food security, inflation, balance of payments, cash crop export volume, statistical analysis. Bibliography, graphs, statistical tables.

Covers the period from the early 1960s until 1987.

Research methodology and data; Infrastructure and agricultural production; Infrastructure, the rural labor market, and employment; Infrastructure, household income, and poverty; Linkage, between infrastructure and consumption; Infrastructure and savings-investment behavior; Infrastructure, rural markets, and social development; Implications for public policies.

Agriculture in the GATT: an overview; Criteria for evaluating trade reform proposals; The theoretical consequences of changing certain GATT provisions; Outline of a trade reform package.

Brazilian wheat policy; analysis of the aggregate effects of wheat policy on producers and consumers; distribution of benefits by farm size and income; appendix 1: supplementary tables. Appendix 2: a simple model for analysing the effects of shifting the subidy from wheat to rice appendix 3: alternative consumption policies - model and some rsults.

The role of agriculture in the Colombian economy and main economic development, 1967-83; Model and empirical evidence; Supply response in Colombian agriculture; Income distribution and real wages in agriculture.