Author: Hans P. BinswangerPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural productivity
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Explaining Agricultural and Agrarian Policies in Developing Countries
Author: Hans P. BinswangerPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural productivity
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Explaining Agricultural and Agrarian Policies in Developing Countries
Author: Klaus DeiningerAgricultural Development and Economic Transformation
Author: John W. MellorPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319652591
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
This book examines the role of agriculture in the economic transformation of developing low- and middle-income countries and explores means for accelerating agricultural growth and poverty reduction. In this volume, Mellor measures by household class the employment impact of alternative agricultural growth rates and land tenure systems, and impact on cereal consumption and food security. The book provides detailed analysis of each element of agricultural modernization, emphasizing the central role of government in accelerated growth in private sector dominated agriculture. The book differs from the bulk of current conventional wisdom in its placement of the non-poor small commercial farmer at the center of growth, and explains how growth translates into poverty reduction. This new book is a follow up to Mellor’s classic, prize-winning text, The Economics of Agricultural Development. Listed as a Best Books of 2017: Economics by Financial Times.
Explaining Agricultural and Agrarian Policies in Developing Countries
Author: P. Hans BinswangerPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
May 1997 What explains differences in agricultural and agrarian policies across countries and over time? Why do countries adopt, and maintain, policy regimes that reduce efficiency and increase rural poverty? What are the conditions for countries to initiate equity- and efficiency-enhancing policy reforms and for these reforms to be maintained? These are the questions pursued in this literature review. Political outcomes - such as agricultural taxation, subsidization, and the provision of public goods - result from political bargaining among interest groups. Such bargaining is likely to be efficiency-enhancing and growth-enhancing when equally powerful interest groups - aware of the economywide budget constraint and know the economic implications of different policy options - participate, and when impartial institutions are available to enforce decisions. The greater the deviation from these conditions, the greater the potential for efficiency-reducing outcomes, the costs of which will generally fall disproportionately on politically underrepresented or powerless groups. Material conditions of agricultural production - such as spatial dispersion, seasonal work cycles, covariance of risk, and the associated market imperfections - exacerbate the difficulties faced by small producers to engage in collective action. So, despite being generally the economically most efficient form of production, family farmers' ability to counteract the political influence of rural elites and urban dwellers is extremely limited. Lack of independent institutions and clearly defined property rights - and the presence of organizational residues - not only reduce peasants' bargaining power but may also make it more profitable for powerful groups to prefer rent seeking to productive activities. How can these undesirable outcomes be avoided, and how can sustainable policy changes be initiated? Experience indicates that fiscal crises of the state, often triggered or aggravated by an external shock, can cause lasting changes of policies and institutions. By forcing the state to devolve some of its power in exchange for financial assistance to meet its immediate needs, such a crisis can give rise to the emergence of independent legal, political, and economic institutions that are maintained even once the crisis has subsided. External actors that provide resources in terms of crisis and at the same time enhance the scope for the politically least vocal parts of civil society to participate in political discourse can have a significant impact in changing policy. The paper discusses in detail the implications for research as well as for policy advice. This paper - a joint product of the Office of the Director, Agriculture and Natural Resources Department and the Office of the Director, Policy Research Department - is part of a larger effort in the department to develop an empirically testable model for the determination of agricultural and agrarian policies. The authors may be contacted at [email protected] or [email protected].
Agriculture and Development
Author: Gudrun Kochendörfer-LuciusPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 0821371282
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
The book highlights proceedings from the Berlin 2008: Agriculture and Development conference held in preparation for the World Development Report 2008.
Agricultural Policy in Developing Countries
Author: International Economic AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 565
Book Description
Farming Systems and Poverty
Author: John A. DixonPublisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9789251046272
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
A joint FAO and World Bank study which shows how the farming systems approach can be used to identify priorities for the reduction of hunger and poverty in the main farming systems of the six major developing regions of the world.
Seasonal Hunger and Public Policies
Author: Shahidur R. KhandkerPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 0821395548
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
The book provides an exhaustive inquiry of Bangladesh s seasonal hunger with special focus on the northwest region where it is more pronounced than in other areas. It also presents an evaluation of several policy interventions launched recently in mitigating seasonality.
Agricultural Policies in Developing Countries
Author: Frank EllisPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521395847
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
This book is designed for undergraduate and graduate students taking courses related to agricultural policy, agricultural economics, or rural development in developing countries.
Land Policies for Growth and Poverty Reduction
Author: Klaus W. DeiningerPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
This volume synthesizes insights from the vast literature on land policy, taking due account of actual experiences in policy implementation, and suggests ways to design land policies that promote growth as well as poverty reduction.