Land Reform and Farm Restructuring in Ukraine

World Bank Discussion Paper No. 267. The World Bank, a long-time supporter of trade liberalization in developing countries, has devoted much research to the design and sequencing of trade reform programs. A growing number of developing countries, however, have unilaterally liberalized trade since the mid-1980s. This study documents the character and extent of that liberalization in 32 countries in East and South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America and the Caribbean from 1985 to 1992- 93. The authors develop a systematic method of evaluating the degree of trade liberalization in a country by using individual indicators. They also provide a comprehensive data set on official trade barriers, including average tariffs, dispersion of tariffs, maximum and minimum tariff rates, and coverage of quantitative restrictions for most of the 32 countries in the study.Lerman, Zvi is the author of 'Land Reform and Farm Restructuring in Ukraine' with ISBN 9780821331491 and ISBN 0821331493.