Search Results - subject:"Input subsidies"

What are the effects of input subsidy programs on equilibrium maize prices? Evidence from Malawi and Zambia

Ricker-Gilbert, Jacob; Mason, Nicole; Jayne, Thomas; … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013

tend to be net food buyers. To inform debates related to this rationale for input subsidies, this study estimates the …

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Senegal; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper: Joint Staff Advisory Note on the National Strategy for Economic and Social Development

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2013

The joint staff Advisory Note on Senegalâ€™s Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper reviews policies and strategies required to push forward the authorityâ€™s agenda for high, sustained, and inclusive growth and poverty reduction. The private sector is recognized as the main engine of growth...

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Agricultural input subsidies : the recent Malawi experience

Chirwa, Ephraim Wadonda; Dorward, Andrew R. - 2013 - First edition published in 2013

Agricultural input subsidies were a major feature of development policies in rural economies until the 1980s …

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Input subsidies and demand for improved maize: Relative prices and household heterogeneity matter!

Holden, Stein - School of Economics and Business, Norges miljø- og … - 2013

input subsidies affect the demand for improved maize seeds; how increasing land scarcity affects the cropping system and … demand for improved maize; and how access to improved maize seeds affects household welfare with varying access to input … subsidies. The model simulations demonstrate that a) there is a high risk that access to subsidized improved maize seeds can …

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Amazing maize in Malawi: Input subsidies, factor productivity and land use intensification

Holden, Stein - School of Economics and Business, Norges miljø- og … - 2013

The paper uses three years of household farm plot panel data (2006-2009), covering six districts in central and southern Malawi to assess factor productivity and farming system development under the input subsidy program. All farm plots of the households were measured with GPS. Maize production...

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THE EFFECTS OF INPUT SUBSIDIES ON FIELD CROP PRODUCTION IN SERBIA

Munćan, Petar; Božić, Dragica - In: Economics of Agriculture 60 (2013) 3

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Mali; Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper-Joint Staff Advisory Note

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2013

Maliâ€™s Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategic Paper provides a comprehensive framework for implementing an ambitious growth and poverty reduction agenda. Executive Directors approve the elaboration of GPRSP-3, which will guide the country in its efforts to sustainably reduce poverty. The...

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The Economy-wide Impacts and Risks of Malawi's Farm Input Subsidy Program

Arndt, Channing; Pauw, Karl; Thurlow, James - African Association of Agricultural Economists - AAAE - 2013

Program evaluations often overlook economywide spillovers and constraints. We estimate the impact of Malawi’s Farm Input Subsidy Program using a computable general equilibrium model informed by household-level studies. We find that indirect benefits account for about two-fifths of total...

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Disrupting Demand for Commercial Seed: Input Subsidies in Malawi and Zambia

Mason, Nicole M.; Ricker-Gilbert, Jacob - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2012

Input subsidy programs that provide inorganic fertilizer and improved maize seed to small farmers below market rates are currently receiving a great deal of support as a sustainable strategy to foster an African Green Revolution. In recent years numerous countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)...

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Input Subsidies, Cash Constraints and Timing of Input Supply:-Experimental Evidence from Malawi

Holden, Stein T.; Lunduka, Rodney - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012

The study investigated the demand for fertilizer among rural farm households in Malawi that have been exposed to high fertilizer subsidy levels. Subsidies and cash constraints may limit their demand but their cash constraint may be less severe at harvest time than at planting time when they...

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