The implementation costs of agricultural policies / OECD.

Also available in French under the title: Les coûts de mise en œuvre des politiques agricoles.

Includes bibliographical references.

Concerns about the cost of implementing and monitoring agricultural policies are mounting with the development of more decoupled and targeted policies. While these costs are inherent in the policy process, reducing them will bring benefits in terms of better use of public funds, and minimizing the overall economic costs of policies. The report suggests ways to do so without compromising the aims of the policies. Ways to reduce costs include sharing experiences across agencies, regions or countries, exploiting already existing administrative networks, integrating government and private information systems, reducing the number of agencies and using the latest information technologies.--Publisher's description.

Available both in print and online.

Part I, Main report: Policy-related transaction costs of agricultural policies, Policy-related transaction costs and policy choice, Summary and conclusions -- Part II, Case studies: A case study of the policy-related transaction costs of PROCAMPO payments in Mexico, A case study of the policy-related transaction costs of direct payments in Switzerland, A case study of the policy-related transaction costs in land conservation programmes in the United States.