A novel measure of developing countries' agricultural and food policy readiness

James F. Oehmke, Sera L. Young, Allen W. Heinemann, Mandivamba Rukuni, Alexandre Lyambabaje and Lori A. Post

World Development, 2022, vol. 158, issue C

Abstract: Positive agricultural and food policy environments are critically important to the success and inclusiveness of agricultural growth and transformation. Despite the catalytic potential of enabling policies, countries vary in their willingness, capacity, and ability to improve policy: in other words they have varying degrees of policy readiness. The profession has spawned a plethora of 'policy readiness' indices over the past decade. These indices are welcome first steps, but they are non-statistical compilations of a collection of inherently different measures with unclear relationships: to borrow Ravallion's term, they are mash-up indices.

Keywords: Africa; Agricultural and food policy; Asia; Development policy; Mutual accountability; Policy readiness; USAID; Policy Matrix; Policy Priority Matrix; Feed the Future (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2022.105920

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