05505 am 22007453u 450 99620718490331620210226124439.00-19-150649-4(CKB)2560000000294217(EBL)3055908(OCoLC)868923920(SSID)ssj0001152310(PQKBManifestationID)11702656(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001152310(PQKBWorkID)11146086(PQKB)11251642(StDuBDS)EDZ0000172416(MiAaPQ)EBC3055908(MiAaPQ)EBC7038513(Au-PeEL)EBL7038513(EXLCZ)99256000000029421720130508d2013 uy 0engurmn#---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAgricultural input subsidies the recent Malawi experience /Ephraim Chirwa and Andrew DorwardOxford :Oxford University Press,2014.1 online resource (315 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Description based upon print version of record.Print version: Chirwa, Ephraim W. Agricultural input subsidies : the recent Malawi experience. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013 xvi, 298 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. 9780199683529 (OCoLC)861619241 Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-288) and index.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 features2.7. 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 policies4.6. The 2005/6 Agricultural Input Subsidy Programme4.7. Summary; Part II. Implementation and Impacts of the Malawi Programme; 5. FISP activities and achievements; 5.1. Introduction; 5.2. Programme design and evolution; 5.3. Input purchases and distribution; 5.4. Coupon distribution; 5.5. Coupon redemption; 5.6. Diversion and fraud; 5.7. Farmer support; 5.8. Programme finance and costs; 5.9. Summary; 6. Direct impacts of input subsidies; 6.1. Introduction; 6.2. Methods of evaluating direct beneficiary impacts; 6.3. Impacts on maize production; 6.4. Impact on food consumption6.5. Impacts on education and health6.6. Welfare impacts; 6.7. Impacts in life stories of beneficiary households; 6.8. Summary; 7. Economy-wide effects of input subsidies; 7.1. Introduction; 7.2. Sources of evidence and analytical methods; 7.3. Macro-economic environment and role of input subsidies; 7.4. Maize exports and imports; 7.5. Impacts on maize prices and rural wages; 7.6. Other variables; 7.7. Summary; 8. Impacts on input market development; 8.1. Introduction; 8.2. Roles of various players in input supply systems; 8.3. Overall input purchase and use8.4. Developments in the fertilizer markets8.5. Developments in the seed market; 8.6. Challenges and opportunities of private sector participation; 8.7. Summary; 9. Benefit-cost analysis, 2006/7 to 2010/11; 9.1. Introduction; 9.2. Benefit-cost analysis purposes and principles; 9.3. Benefit-cost analysis methods; 9.4. Problems and challenges with benefit-cost analysis (BCA) of the FISP; 9.5. Improving FISP benefit-cost estimates; 9.6. Summary; Part III. Strategic issues; 10. Targeting and access to input subsidies; 10.1. Introduction10.2. 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