The efficiency of the Common Agricultural Policy
用传统微观经济学方法，将共同农业政策的成本与实现目标的进展联系起来，评估其效率，并开发了分析框架用于比较不同政策，提供了成本效果比等效率指标。
The efficiency of the Common Agricultural Policy is dealt with in the spirit of traditional microeconomics, that is by relating the costs and burdens resulting from the policy to the progress achieved towards realizing specified objectives. The nature of policies and their costs and benefits is explored and related to the current operation of the CAP. Previous work on estimating the costs and benefits of the CAP is briefly reviewed. An analytical and methodological framework for the evaluation of efficiency is developed, which allows for the consistent comparison of alternative policies. Empirical application of this framework, restricted to the current policy, yields estimates of a variety of efficiency measures (cost/effect ratios), allowing a preliminary evaluation of policy directions within the current policy mix. While the analysis is reported largely at the Community level, breakdowns of the major results by member state and by farm size group are also reported.