The main objective of this paper is to show how relevant is the incentive policy to agricultural investments for food poverty reduction towards agricultural households. The data used for this study are from the 1985-1988 CI-LSMS and the 1998 National Statistics Institute's Household Surveys. We...

The principal objective of this paper is to show how relevant is the incentive policy to agricultural investments for food poverty reduction towards agricultural households. The data used for this study are from the 1985-88 CI-LSMS and the 1998 National Statistics Institute's Household Surveys....

The global food price shock of 2006-2008 has particularly affected poorer strata of populations in several developing countries. In Egypt and some other countries it has put food subsidy schemes to the test. This paper develops two comparable computable general equilibrium models for Egypt and...