Agricultural input subsidies: the recent Malawi experience

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This title provides a detailed, comprehensive, and objective analysis of Malawi's agricultural input subsidy programme, its history, implementation, achievements, and shortcomings.

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Full title :Agricultural input subsidies : the recent Malawi experience / Ephraim Chirwa and Andrew Dorward.

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This title provides a detailed, comprehensive, and objective analysis of Malawi's agricultural input subsidy programme, its history, implementation, achievements, and shortcomings.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2014.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014.

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10.2. Targeting at national, district, and beneficiary levels.

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Description:1 online resource (315 pages) : : PDF file(s).

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ISBN:9780191506499, 0191506494, 9780191763069, 0191763063
oclc:on1295934659
LC Classification:HD2133.5.Z8
Dewey Decimal:338.186897

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 1.1. Background: challenges in African agricultural development; 1.2. Objectives and outline; 1.3. Data and methods; Part I. Background; 2. Agricultural input subsidies: changing theory and practice; 2.1. Introduction; 2.2. 'Conventional' input subsidies in agricultural development-theory and practice; 2.3. Resurgent interest in input subsidies; 2.4. Input subsidies' successes, failures, and potential; 2.5. Input subsidies' roles and objectives; 2.6. Design and implementation features

2.7. Conditions affecting effectiveness2.8. Rethinking input subsidies: a conceptual framework; 3. Recent African experience with input subsidies; 3.1. Introduction; 3.2. Ghana; 3.3. Zambia Fertilizer Support Programme and Food Security Pack; 3.4. Nigeria; 3.5. Tanzania; 3.6. Rwanda; 3.7. Mali and Senegal; 3.8. Millennium Villages; 3.9. Overall lessons; 3.10. Conclusions from recent experience; 4. Malawi: political, policy, livelihoods, and market background; 4.1. Introduction; 4.2. The context; 4.3. Politics and policies; 4.4. The livelihoods and markets context; 4.5. Agricultural policies

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Agricultural subsidies Agricultural subsidies -- Developing co… Agricultural subsidies -- Malawi Aide de l'État à l'agriculture -- Malawi BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries developing countries Développement économique -- Malawi economic development Economic development -- Developing coun… Economic development -- Malawi Malawi