The Impact of Farm Income Support on Absolute Inequality

Paul Allanson

The Impact of Farm Income Support on Absolute Inequality

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Abstract

This paper focuses on the impact of agricultural support policies on the distribution of farming incomes, using measures to characterise and quantify the redistributive effects that are based on the change in the absolute Gini index. The provision of support to Scottish agriculture is found to have been at best ineffective as a means to reduce the average size of income disparities between farms. Agricultural policy is further shown to have been inefficient as a redistributive tool because of the adverse distributional effect of the re-ranking of farms induced by the provision of support.

Original language	English
Number of pages	14
Publication status	Published - 2005
Event	94th EAAE Seminar, "From households to firms with independent legal status: the spectrum of institutional units in the development of European agriculture." - Ashford, United Kingdom Duration: 9 Apr 2005 → 10 Apr 2005

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Seminar	94th EAAE Seminar, "From households to firms with independent legal status: the spectrum of institutional units in the development of European agriculture."
Abbreviated title	94th EAAE Seminar
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Ashford
Period	9/04/05 → 10/04/05

Keywords

Agricultural policy
Income redistribution
Scotland

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Dundee Discussion Papers in Economics 178: The impact of farm income support on absolute inequality
Allanson, P., 2005, University of Dundee, (Dundee Discussion Papers in Economics; no. 178).
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The Impact of Farm Income Support on Absolute Inequality

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Dundee Discussion Papers in Economics 178: The impact of farm income support on absolute inequality

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