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For several reasons, fertilizer subsidies are again popular policy tools. First, there is broad agreement that fertilizer is a critical yet still-underused input for improving productivity and food security in Africa. Second, politicians have felt greater urgency to increase domestic food...
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This is a draft paper, submitted in advance of presentation at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association.
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National food security in Malawi depends on improving the performance of maize markets. Ensuring that grain is … makers in Malawi: how to keep prices low enough to ensure low income consumers’ access to food while keeping prices high … marketing margins, which shrink the wedge between producer and consumer prices. Moreover, Malawi faces major political and …
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years numerous countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) including Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Senegal, Tanzania, and Zambia … have implemented such programs at substantial cost to government and donor budgets. For example, in 2008 Malawi spent …
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effects of fertilizer subsidies on retail maize prices in Malawi and Zambia using market or district-level panel data covering … the 2000/01 to 2011/12 maize marketing years. Results indicate that roughly doubling the size of Malawi’s subsidy program … fertilizer subsidy programs in Malawi and Zambia have had a minimal effect on reducing retail maize prices. …
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This study uses household level panel data from Malawi to measure the contemporaneous and dynamic impacts of fertilizer …
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This paper assesses improved maize adoption in Malawi and examines the link between adoption and household welfare …
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Replaced with revised version of paper 08/23/11.
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This study uses nationally representative household-level panel data from Malawi and Zambia to identify the … purchases by 0.58kg in Malawi and by 0.49kg in Zambia on average. …
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using panel data from Malawi, and incorporating panel estimation techniques to deal with unobserved heterogeneity. Our …
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