Protecting the Poor in the Transition

Paul Streeten

Chapter 13 in What Price Food?, 1987, pp 66-70 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract It has been argued that the ultimate resolution of the fundamental dilemma with which we started must be found in productivity growth, and that higher producer prices have an important role to play, in conjunction with the right technological package. Higher yields, higher profits, and higher incomes to farmers and farm-workers can then be combined with greater output and lower prices of food. (For any one country the benefits of productivity growth can be passed on to foreign consumers in the form of lower prices. But the proposition remains true for the world as a whole.) This process takes time, and until its benefits are evident, the poor buyers of food may starve.

Keywords: Productivity Growth; Food Price; Poor Food; Subsidy Programme; Rice Price (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1987
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-18921-2_13

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