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Executive Summary -- Farm Household Income Issues in OECD Countries -- The Incidence and Income Transfer Efficiency of Farm Support Measures
Summary
In most OECD countries, farm household incomes figure prominently among the wide and growing range of concerns described as motivating policy interventions in agriculture. The first part of this report provides an overview of the income situation of farm households and examines the influence of agricultural and of tax and social security policies on them. The second part investigates more specifically how efficient some of the most commonly used policy interventions are at transferring income to farm households
