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Agricultural Price Policy, Food Aid And Input Subsidy Reforms In Burkina Faso

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  • M. J. Roth
  • P. C. Abbott

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This paper examines the agrarian decline in Burkina Faso that prompted structural adjustment reforms by the World Bank and the IMF in the early 1980s. Official interventions in the cereals, cotton and fertiliser sectors are examined, and an analysis made of regional impacts of the proposed reforms on producers and consumers. Counter‐factual simulations with a multi‐region, multi‐commodity agricultural sector model are used to evaluate three policies: eliminating input subsidies, increasing official market commodity prices, and reducing food aid imports. Model results show that these reforms would improve agricultural‐sector performance, but depend on cotton exports to pay for fertiliser, contrary to government self‐sufficiency objectives. Relaxing capacity constraints on official marketing operations would also need to be eliminated to achieve reform objectives.

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  • M. J. Roth & P. C. Abbott, 1990. "Agricultural Price Policy, Food Aid And Input Subsidy Reforms In Burkina Faso," Journal of Agricultural Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 41(3), pages 327-345, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jageco:v:41:y:1990:i:3:p:327-345
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1477-9552.1990.tb00650.x
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