Author: Robert E. ChristiansenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture and state
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Malawi's Agricultural Export Strategy and Implications for Income Distribution
Author: Robert E. ChristiansenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture and state
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Achieving food security and industrial development in Malawi
Author: Aragie, EmertaPublisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Restrictions on exports of staples or cash crops are frequently imposed in developing countries to promote food security or industrial development goals. By diverting production to the local market, these policies aim to reduce prices and increase the supply of food or intermediate inputs to the benefit of consumers or downstream industrial users. Although export restrictions reduce aggregate welfare, they are attractive to policymakers: Governments gain support when they are seen to keep consumer prices low; likewise, politicians are swayed by industrial lobbyists who promise increased value-addition in exchange for access to cheaper inputs. This study weighs in on the debate around the desirability of export restrictions by simulating the economy-wide effects of Malawi’s longstanding maize export ban as well as a pro-posed oilseed export levy intended to raise value-addition in processing sectors. Our results show that, while export restrictions may have the desired outcome in the short run, producers respond to weakening market prospects in the longer run by restricting supply, often to the extent that the policies become self-defeating. Specifically, maize export bans only benefit the urban non-poor, while poor farm households experience income losses and reduced maize consumption in the long run. The oilseed export levy is equally ineffective: Even when export tax revenues are used to subsidize processors, gains in industrial value-addition are outweighed by declining agricultural value-addition as production in the fledgling oilseed sector is effectively decimated. The policy is further associated with welfare losses among rural households, while urban non-poor households benefit marginally.
Agricultural Policy, Trade, Economic Growth, and Development
Author: United States. Dept. of Agriculture. Economic Research Service. Agriculture and Trade Analysis DivisionPublisher:
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Category : Agricultural development projects
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Global Review of Agricultural Policies
Author: Maize Technology in Malawi
Author: Paul W. HeiseyPublisher: CIMMYT
ISBN: 9789686923445
Category : Agricultural innovations
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Poverty, AIDS and Hunger
Author: A. ConroyPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230627706
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Using the experiences of Malawi, one of the poorest countries on the African continent, to illustrate both the challenges that poverty creates, and the opportunities for change that exist. Poverty, AIDS and Hunger outlines an easily-replicable model, at modest cost, that could lift people quickly out of poverty, with sustainable benefits.
Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1300
Book Description
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1320
Book Description
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