LEADER 05505 am 22007453u 450 001 996207184903316 005 20210226124439.0 010 $a0-19-150649-4 035 $a(CKB)2560000000294217 035 $a(EBL)3055908 035 $a(OCoLC)868923920 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001152310 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11702656 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001152310 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11146086 035 $a(PQKB)11251642 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000172416 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3055908 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7038513 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7038513 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000294217 100 $a20130508d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmn#---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAgricultural input subsidies $ethe recent Malawi experience /$fEphraim Chirwa and Andrew Dorward 210 1$aOxford :$cOxford University Press,$d2014. 215 $a1 online resource (315 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$aPrint 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 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 273-288) and index. 327 $aCover; 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 327 $a2.7. 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 327 $a4.6. 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 consumption 327 $a6.5. 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 use 327 $a8.4. 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. Introduction 327 $a10.2. Targeting at national, district, and beneficiary levels 330 8 $aThis title provides a detailed, comprehensive, and objective analysis of Malawi's agricultural input subsidy programme, its history, implementation, achievements, and shortcomings. 606 $aEconomic development$zDeveloping countries 606 $aAgricultural subsidies$zDeveloping countries 606 $aEconomic development$zMalawi 606 $aAgricultural subsidies$zMalawi 607 $aDeveloping countries$2fast 607 $aMalawi$2fast 607 $aMalawi$2gnd 608 $bElectronic books. 615 0$aEconomic development 615 0$aAgricultural subsidies 615 0$aEconomic development 615 0$aAgricultural subsidies 676 $a338.186897 686 $aQS 000$2rvk 686 $aRS 64672$2rvk 700 $aChirwa$b Ephraim W$0802166 701 $aDorward$b A$g(Andrew)$0953182 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bUkMaJRU 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996207184903316 996 $aAgricultural input subsidies$92154898 997 $aUNISA