National spreadsheet for agricultural distortions in Turkey

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The aim of this study is to give an overview of the evolution of Turkey's agricultural policies in recent decades, to examine the extent to which they may have distorted incentives, and to attempt an explanation of the underlying forces that have driven the process and conditioned the results. The review period for the assessment begins in 1961, and continues up to the present. However, in order to explain the situation prevailing at the start of this period, various trends and policy preferences are traced back to earlier decades. Turkey experienced rapid population growth in the second half of the twentieth century. Although the population more than trebled between 1950 and 2004, heavy outmigration to urban areas and overseas meant that the rural population grew at half that rate. The agricultural workforce fell from 84 percent of the working population in 1950 to 60 percent in 1970 and 34 percent in 2004. And yet Turkish agriculture was highly supported throughout the closing decade

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