This paper addresses the conceptual issues around the negative price effects of technological change on agricultural producers, explores price policy options vis-à-vis this problem, and reviews and compares experiences across Asian countries as they transformed their rural economies. It then...

In Food and Agriculture in Ethiopia: Progress and Policy Challenges, Paul Dorosh and Shahidur Rashid, along with other experts, tell the story of Ethiopia's political, economic, and agricultural transformation. The book is designed to provide empirical evidence to shed light on the complexities...

This paper uses a partial equilibrium framework to evaluate the relative efficiency, distributional and revenue implications of rice tariffs and targeted transfers in Madagascar, especially in the context of identifying their respective roles for poverty alleviation. Although there are likely to...

Trade liberalization in the early 1990s in Bangladesh has enabled the private sector torespond with market-stabilizing inflows of rice and wheat following major productionshortfalls. At the same time, easing of restrictions on foreign investment, combined withsubstantial depreciation of the...

For the past two decades, Bangladesh has enjoyed steady growth in per capita incomes enabling a significant reduction in poverty. An increase in rice productivity, achieved through a combination of improved seeds, increased fertilizer use, and public and private investments in irrigation, played...

To meet its overall objective of ensuring food security for all households, the Government of Bangladesh undertakes several activities: it intervenes in markets to stabilize prices, targets food distribution to poor households and provides emergency relief after natural disasters. This paper...

In the late 1990s, government policy in Bangladesh shifted in favor of increasedpublic foodgrain stocks, setting official minimum stock targets of 1.0 to 1.2 million tons,as compared to operational targets of about 700 to 800 thousand metric tons in the early1990s. Because no mechanism for stock...

This study uses data from 1996/97 through 1998/99 to examine the relativeefficiency of production of crops in Bangladesh and their comparative advantage ininternational trade as measured by net economic profitability (the profitability usingeconomic, rather than financial costs and prices), and...