, and supply chain. It also assesses the sector’s response to recently implemented fertilizer subsidies, and findings show … that, despite the government’s goal of making the subsidy program supportive of the private market, the majority of …

"In July 2008, the government of Ghana instituted a country-wide subsidy on 50Kg bags of four types of fertilizer in an … effort to mitigate the effect of rising energy and food prices. Farmers received the subsidy in the form of fertilizer- and … of the subsidy program and offers preliminary observations of its implementation. The fertilizer subsidy was a unique …

Export subsidies can generate or curb many perverse incentives for exporters, their expansionary effects on exports … and product specifications. Also, if there is under-invoicing, in principle it should decline with export subsidies since … of export subsidies on the under-invoicing of exports in Bangladesh. In a framework that allows for unobserved …

While there is growing evidence of the impact of targeted subsidies on private input demand, as far as we are aware no … empirical studies have examined the spillover effects of targeted subsidies for just one input on the use of other complementary …

Use of agricultural input and farm support subsidies in Africa has returned strongly to the development agenda … providing aid in the form of farm support and agricultural subsidies. In Ghana, for example, the country of study in this paper …, the government has since 2007 introduced four major subsidy and support programs on fertilizer, mechanization, block farms …

subsidy program in Nigeria, all farmers were required to be members of an organized group. However, for fertilizer …

Despite the rise of targeted input subsidy programs in Africa over the last decade, several questions remain as to …€™s subsidy program are almost always profitable in expectation, although our results may be reasonably interpreted as upper …