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Periodical article | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | Patterns of Market Intervention in Agrarian Africa |
Author: | Bates, Robert H. |
Year: | 1983 |
Periodical: | Food Policy |
Volume: | 8 |
Issue: | 4 |
Period: | November |
Pages: | 297-304 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Africa |
Subjects: | economic policy agricultural market Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Development and Technology Economics and Trade |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1016/0306-9192(83)90050-7 |
Abstract: | Recent interpretations of government behaviour towards agriculture in Africa are summarised and assessed as to their credibility. With respect to the marketing of foods crops, governments are seen as intervening on behalf of organised urban interests; for cash crops, they are viewed as manipulating prices in order to tax, both to collect public revenues and to redistribute purchasing power to consumers of imports. Such interpretations seek to account for the generally Draconian nature of agricultural prices. Notes, tab. |