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AGRICULTURAL PRICE POLICY, FOOD AID AND INPUT SUBSIDY REFORMS IN BURKINA FASO
Author(s) -
Roth M. J.,
Abbott P. C.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
journal of agricultural economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.157
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1477-9552
pISSN - 0021-857X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1477-9552.1990.tb00650.x
Subject(s) - subsidy , agriculture , commodity , economics , agricultural economics , agrarian society , government (linguistics) , agricultural policy , agrarian reform , structural adjustment , business , economic policy , international economics , market economy , ecology , linguistics , philosophy , biology
This paper examines the agrarian decline in Burkina Faso that prompted structural adjustment reforms by the World Bank and the IMF in the early 1980s. Official interventions in the cereals, cotton and fertiliser sectors are examined, and an analysis made of regional impacts of the proposed reforms on producers and consumers. Counter‐factual simulations with a multi‐region, multi‐commodity agricultural sector model are used to evaluate three policies: eliminating input subsidies, increasing official market commodity prices, and reducing food aid imports. Model results show that these reforms would improve agricultural‐sector performance, but depend on cotton exports to pay for fertiliser, contrary to government self‐sufficiency objectives. Relaxing capacity constraints on official marketing operations would also need to be eliminated to achieve reform objectives.