Agricultural policies for poverty reduction /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Paris : Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development ; CABI, 2012.
• Subjects: Agriculture and state > Developing countries.; Agriculture and state > Economic aspects > Developing countries.; Agricultural Economics.; Policy and Planning.; Supply, Demand and Prices.; Input Utilization (Microeconomics); Income and Poverty.; Food Science and Food Products (Human); Rural Development, (New March 2000); Agricultural policy.; Farm income.; Farm inputs.; Food prices.; Household income.; Price stabilization.; Rural development.; Subsidies.; Welfare economics.; Electronic books.
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This volume (consisting of 5 chapters, in addition to an introduction) is concerned with the role of agricultural policies in developing countries, with a focus on their potential for raising the incomes of agricultural and rural households and thereby reducing poverty. The welfare impacts of agricu...

Table of Contents:

• Executive Summary
• Agricultural Policies for Raising Rural Incomes : An Introduction
• A Strategic Framework for Strengthening Rural Incomes in Developing Countries
• Distributional Impacts of Commodity Prices in Developing Countries
• The Distributional Implications of Agricultural Policies in Developing Countries : Findings from the Development Policy Evaluation Model (DEVPEM)
• Stabilisation Policies in Developing Countries after the 2007-08 Food Crisis
• The Use of Input Subsidies in Low-Income Countries.