Agricultural Incentives in Sub-Saharan Africa: Policy Challenges, Svazky 23–444World Bank, 1999 - Počet stran: 191 This study examines the state of agricultural incentives in Sub-Saharan Africa, taking stock of the current policy environment and its recent evolution. The global price environment is examined together with the macroeconomic, export crop, food crop, and fertilizer policies in sixteen African countries. Policy diamonds are constructed as incentive indicators reflecting the state of macroeconomic and agricultural policies relative to a perceived frontiers. The study attempts to determine the factors inhibiting countries from moving towards this frontier. The study highlights several continuing policy challenges that sub-Saharan Africa faces to ensure appropriate agricultural incentives to stimulate growth. These include: coping with agricultural commodity price decline and fluctuation; securing access to foreign markets and in particular meeting the sanitary and phytosanitary requirements; removing continuing domestic trade barriers; stabilizing macroeconomic policies; enhancing the institutional framework and the credibility of rules; removing the remnants of marketing boards in many African countries; removing excessive agricultural taxation and ensuring public rural investment; improving transportation infrastructure; encouraging public and private sector partnership and dealing with aid in input markets. |
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AGRICULTURAL GROWTH | 3 |
FIGURES | 4 |
Comparison of Technical Efficiency by Region | 11 |
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African countries Agric agricultural GDP growth agricultural growth Annual change Barter terms Benin border price Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon change in real cocoa coffee commodity prices competition controls Côte d'Ivoire cotton Crop Policy Macroeconomic currency devaluation decline effect efficiency Exchange rate pass-through Export Crop Policy External Terms f.o.b. price farmers fertilizer aid fertilizer market fertilizer subsidies Food Crop Policy Gambia Ghana grain groundnuts improved income terms infrastructure inhibited input intervention investment Kenya liberalization Macroeconomic Environment Madagascar maize Malawi Mali marketing boards Mozambique Multifactor productivity Nigeria output parastatal Policy Food Crop Policy Macroeconomic Policy Policy score private sector private traders producer's share Producers share Real agricultural GDP Real interest rates real producer prices reforms rural Seigniorage Senegal share of f.o.b. significantly South Africa stabilization Sub-Saharan Africa Table Tanzania tariffs taxes terms of trade Togo Trade for Agriculture transportation costs Uganda v.a. per worker variable World Bank Zimbabwe