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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1475-5890.1982.tb00574.x/abstract 

<p>Before joining the European Commmunity, Britain supported its farmers by a system of 'deficiency payments'. This involved direct payments from the government to bolster farmers' incomes. However most European countries used a different method, and it is this that became the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).</p>

Authors

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Andrew Dilnot

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Nick Morris

Journal article details

DOI
10.1111/j.1475-5890.1982.tb00574.x
ISSN
Print: 0143-5671 Online: 1475-5890
Issue
July 1982

Suggested citation

Dilnot, A and Morris, N. (1982). 'The distribution effects of the Common Agricultural Policy' (1982)

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