This paper describes the structure and construction of a social accounting matrix (SAM) for Pakistan for 2001-02. A SAM is an internally consistent extended set of national accounts that disaggregates value-added in each production activity into payments to various factors (e.g., land, labour,...

This article provides a quantitative analysis of the effects of Pakistan government domestic wheat procurement, sales, and trade policies on wheat supply, demand, prices, and overall inflation. Analysis of price multipliers indicates that increases in wheat procurement prices (one means of...

This paper examines recent movements in domestic cereal prices in Ethiopia in light of world price movements and production trends, and then uses a Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model to assess the effects of various types of shocks on prices, incomes and food consumption, particularly...

Performance of the agriculture sector over the last four decades remained quite satisfactory with an average growth rate of 3.4% per annum. Still the country is far behind in its efforts to provide an acceptable level of dietary requirement to its people even at the aggregate level. The daily...

Trade liberalization in the early 1990s in Bangladesh has enabled the private sector torespond with market-stabilizing inflows of rice and wheat following major productionshortfalls. At the same time, easing of restrictions on foreign investment, combined withsubstantial depreciation of the...

For the past two decades, Bangladesh has enjoyed steady growth in per capita incomes enabling a significant reduction in poverty. An increase in rice productivity, achieved through a combination of improved seeds, increased fertilizer use, and public and private investments in irrigation, played...

To meet its overall objective of ensuring food security for all households, the Government of Bangladesh undertakes several activities: it intervenes in markets to stabilize prices, targets food distribution to poor households and provides emergency relief after natural disasters. This paper...

In the late 1990s, government policy in Bangladesh shifted in favor of increasedpublic foodgrain stocks, setting official minimum stock targets of 1.0 to 1.2 million tons,as compared to operational targets of about 700 to 800 thousand metric tons in the early1990s. Because no mechanism for stock...

This study uses data from 1996/97 through 1998/99 to examine the relativeefficiency of production of crops in Bangladesh and their comparative advantage ininternational trade as measured by net economic profitability (the profitability usingeconomic, rather than financial costs and prices), and...