Ross, P. J. (author / Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture) and Carlin, T. (author / Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1987
Published:
USA: The American agricultural Economics Association
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 105 Document Number: C09140
9 pages., Author reports on the benefit-cost ratio (BCR) of agricultural trade promotion, observing an average of $10 return from $1 invested and noting that funds allocated to such promotion have been relatively small. ... "Given the high BCRs to export promotion...as reported by several studies, increased funding to those underfunded programs could produce rather dramatic results..."