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Assistance to A ustralian agriculture from F ederation to W orld W ar II
Author(s) -
Lloyd Peter,
MacLaren Donald
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
australian journal of agricultural and resource economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.683
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1467-8489
pISSN - 1364-985X
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8489.12069
Subject(s) - agriculture , russian federation , product (mathematics) , government (linguistics) , agricultural economics , world war ii , agricultural productivity , business , political science , economic growth , economics , economic policy , geography , law , linguistics , philosophy , geometry , mathematics , archaeology
This paper quantifies the levels of assistance received by producers of the major agricultural crops and animal products in A ustralia from F ederation to the end of W orld W ar 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 F ederation, the pattern of assistance to the sector discriminated persistently and heavily against the exportable agricultural products.