Economic and Distributional Impacts of Biofuels in Mali

Dorothee Boccanfuso, Massa Coulibaly (), Govinda Timilsina () and Luc Savard
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Abstract: A biofuels race has been observed around the world with rising cost of oil and the increasing concerns over climate change. Unfortunately, this growth is associated with rising food prices, which is a major concern in developing countries like Mali. The development of biofuels in Mali should contribute to reducing dependency on imported fossil fuels and avoiding competing for land used for food production. This study carries out an economic and distributional impact analysis with a microsimulation and CGE model of the prospects of large-scale expansion jatropha to produce biofuels in Mali. We also investigate the impacts of promoting biofuels through a tax-subsidy scheme. Our results reveal that macro effects are slightly negative or weakly positive but generate reductions in poverty at the national level and for rural households. The pro-poor analysis does not reveal a clear trend with proportional, progressive and regressive outcomes.

Keywords: Biofuels; agriculture; computable general equilibrium model; micro-simulation; distributional analysis. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 D58 I32 Q17 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 28 pages
Date: 2011-05, Revised 2011-05
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-afr, nep-agr, nep-cmp, nep-ene and nep-env
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Working Paper: Economic and Distributional Impact of Bio-Fuels in Mali (2010)
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