Farm prices and agricultural production in developing countries

by Hans-Bernd Schäfer, Hamburg

The low agricultural output of many developing countries is often blamed on discrimination against the farm sector, especially as a result of low state-regulated prices. Accordingly, it is argued that agricultural prices should be raised to offer producers incentives to expand production. However, the connection between farm prices and aggregate agricultural output has not yet been adequately clarified by empirical evidence. The following article tackles this problem.

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Year of publication:	May/June 1987
Authors:	Schäfer, Hans-Bernd
Published in:	Intereconomics : review of European economic policy. - Warsaw, Poland : Sciendo, ISSN 1613-964X, ZDB-ID 2066476-X. - Vol. 22.1987, 3, p. 129-136
Subject:	Agriculture \| Agrarmarkt \| Agricultural market \| Entwicklungsländer \| Developing countries

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Type of publication:	Article
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Aufsatz in Zeitschrift ; Article in journal
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	10.1007/BF02932234 [DOI] hdl:10419/140078 [Handle]
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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