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The study investigated the demand for fertilizer among rural farm households in Malawi that have been exposed to high …
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We assess the level and determinants of relative technical efficiency of maize-based smallholder farmers using a translog stochastic frontier (TL) model and a symmetric generalized Barnett production function (SGB), both of which are tested for economic regularity conditions. In addition, we...
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of higher prices on different income groups in rural and urban areas of Malawi. Compensating Variation analysis indicates …
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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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means tests models for rural and urban Malawi. The models developed have proved their validity in an independent sample and …
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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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in the study is from Malawi collected by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).Using the direct …
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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 paper assesses the cost efficiency of indicator-based targeting. Using household survey data from Malawi, we … for targeting agricultural subsidy programs in the country. There is compelling evidence in favor of targeting Malawi … Pack and AISP. This work is prospectively relevant for Malawi as its policy makers reflect on improving the efficiency of …
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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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