What Price Food?: Agricultural Price Policies in Developing Countries

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
The Dilemma....Pages 1-4
Multiplicity of Objectives....Pages 5-7
Towards a Country and Crop Typology....Pages 8-10
What Are Price Policies?....Pages 11-13
Allocational Efficiency and Higher Food Production....Pages 14-28
Subsidies to Inputs....Pages 29-30
The Total Picture....Pages 31-34
Aggregate Growth....Pages 35-38
National Food Security and Food Aid....Pages 39-44
Price Stabilization....Pages 45-52
Export Crops v. Food for Domestic Consumption....Pages 53-59
Incoine Distribution and Poverty....Pages 60-65
Protecting the Poor in the Transition....Pages 66-70
Small Farmers and Employment....Pages 71-73
Rural-Urban Migration....Pages 74-76
The Politics of Food Prices....Pages 77-84
The Budgetary Constraint....Pages 85-87
The Balance of Payments Constraint....Pages 88-92
International Implications....Pages 93-95
The Wider Issues of Hunger and Malnutrition....Pages 96-99
Recommendations....Pages 100-102
Research Needs....Pages 103-104
Statistical Requirements....Pages 105-105
Summary and Conclusions....Pages 106-106
Back Matter....Pages 107-127