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, and supply chain. It also assesses the sector’s response to recently implemented fertilizer subsidies, and findings show …
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"In July 2008, the government of Ghana instituted a country-wide subsidy on 50Kg bags of four types of fertilizer in an effort to mitigate the effect of rising energy and food prices. Farmers received the subsidy in the form of fertilizer- and region-specific vouchers distributed by agricultural...
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Export subsidies can generate or curb many perverse incentives for exporters, their expansionary effects on exports … and product specifications. Also, if there is under-invoicing, in principle it should decline with export subsidies since … of export subsidies on the under-invoicing of exports in Bangladesh. In a framework that allows for unobserved …
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While there is growing evidence of the impact of targeted subsidies on private input demand, as far as we are aware no … empirical studies have examined the spillover effects of targeted subsidies for just one input on the use of other complementary …
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Use of agricultural input and farm support subsidies in Africa has returned strongly to the development agenda … subsequently put pressure to discontinue them due to their high cost and distortionary effect on the domestic economy are now … providing aid in the form of farm support and agricultural subsidies. In Ghana, for example, the country of study in this paper …
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The study involved interviewing a large number of stakeholders in fertilizer value chain, collection of data on costs and margins from the key actors in the value chain, as well as household survey data. In this paper, we present the key findings from that study. In particular, the paper...
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This paper assesses the sustainability of the current supply network for mechanization, given government policy. Stylized models of mechanization supply are developed based on experience in Bangladesh, China, and India during similar stages of agricultural transformation. Ghana’s supply...
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Farmer groups are considered potentially effective mechanisms to increase farmer livelihood by reducing information asymmetries and transaction costs. In many countries, farmers are coordinated in groups for participation in poverty reduction programs. This is common practice in many input...
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Despite the rise of targeted input subsidy programs in Africa over the last decade, several questions remain as to whether low and variable soil fertility, frequent drought, and high fertilizer prices render fertilizer unprofitable for large subpopulations of African farmers. To examine these...
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