Rice is of key importance to Indonesia’s national and household level food security. The choice of tariff policy has … various stakeholders. In this study we use a multi-market model to assess the impact of hypothetical rice tariff changes on … household welfare and other variables of interest to rice policy-makers. A reduction in the rice tariff from 30 to 0% reduces …

maize yields and then removing rice tariffs adds a large increase in soybean output and rice imports to the maize yield … cassava but not of soybeans. Rice imports also fall strongly. Household welfare is positively affected but by little …. Combining maize, cassava and soybean yield increases with a rice tariff elimination has a particularly pronounced effect on …

absence or inadequacy of risk-mitigating institutions and markets, and the need to protect the world's poorest communities … policy use case studies from South Asia (Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan) and East Asia (Indonesia, the Philippines, and …

Being the main food commodity, the dynamics of rice prices is one of the most important issues for Indonesian economy … markets but also by price behavior at the wholesale market. This study aims to analyse the dynamics of the relationship and … behaviour of the prices of various varieties and qualities of rice in the wholesale market. The dynamics of rice prices are …

pro-poor economic growth and a successful Green Revolution, led by high-yielding rice varieties, massive investments in … country has been intimately connected to rice prices. After more than two decades of stabilizing domestic rice prices around … domestic rice prices much higher than world prices and much higher than long-run trends of real prices in rupiahs. Although the …

In the aftermath of the Asian financial crises, the Indonesian government launched a subsidized rice program called … started receiving the subsidized rice in the early years of childhood. …