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Title: | Liberalizing Egypt's Agriculture: A Quadratic Programming Analysis |
Author: | Löfgren, Hans |
Year: | 1993 |
Periodical: | Journal of African Economies |
Volume: | 2 |
Issue: | 2 |
Period: | October |
Pages: | 238-261 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Egypt |
Subjects: | agricultural policy Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Economics and Trade Development and Technology |
External link: | https://jae.oxfordjournals.org/content/2/2/238.full.pdf |
Abstract: | Since 1986, the Egyptian government has gradually liberalized the country's agricultural sector. The reform, part of the structural adjustment of the country's economy, aims at removing government restrictions on farmer choice and introducing international prices for agricultural inputs and outputs. Using a quadratic price-endogenous programming model, this study analyses the liberalization of Egypt's agriculture through a case study of the Minoufia governorate based on 1986-1987 data. The results suggest that the introduction of international price equivalents and relaxed cropping constraints would lead to significant increases in farmer incomes and in the economic return to sector sources. However, the relative income gap between small and large farmers would increase. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. |