The sequencing of agricultural market reforms in Malawi

Kherallah, Mylène and Govindan Kumaresan

No 13, MTID discussion papers from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Abstract: The paper analyzes the welfare impacts of alternative sequencing scenarios of agricultural market reforms in Malawi using a profit maximization approach. The simulation results show that, contrary to the sequencing path adopted in the 1980's, Malawi's Government should have liberalized the maize sector first, followed by the groundnut export sector, and once a supply response was generated, input subsidies could have been phased out, without generating a negative impact on producers' welfare and food security.

Keywords: Agricultural economics.; Food security Malawi. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997
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