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Title

Modelling the Distributional Implications of Agricultural Policies in Developing Countries [electronic resource]: The Development Policy Evaluation Model (DEVPEM) / Jonathan Brooks ... [et al]

Publication

Paris : OECD Publishing, 2011.

Details

Additional Authors

• Brooks, Jonathan.
• Filipski, Mateusz.
• Jonasson, Erik.
• Taylor, J. Edward.

Description

56 p.; 21 x 29.7cm.

Summary

This paper presents the Development Policy Evaluation Model (DEVPEM), a new simulation model which captures four critical aspects of rural economies in developing countries: (1) the role of the household as both a producer and a consumer of food crops; (2) high transaction costs of participating in markets; (3) market linkages among heterogeneous rural producers and consumers; (4) the imperfect convertibility of land from one use to another. The results of simulations for six country models show that no untargeted agricultural policy intervention is pro-poor within the rural economy. While agricultural policy instruments are less efficient at raising rural incomes than direct payments, the degree of inefficiency of some market interventions, notably input subsidies, is not inevitably as high as observed in developed OECD countries.

Series Statement

OECD Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Papers, 1815-6797 ; no.50

Uniform Title

OECD Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Papers, no.50.

Subject

Agriculture and Food

LCCN

10.1787/5kg26l5kjp22-en

OCLC

oecd-lib

Title

Modelling the Distributional Implications of Agricultural Policies in Developing Countries [electronic resource]: The Development Policy Evaluation Model (DEVPEM) / Jonathan Brooks ... [et al]

Imprint

Paris : OECD Publishing, 2011.

Series

OECD Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Papers, 1815-6797 ; no.50

OECD Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Papers, 1815-6797 ; no.50.

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Indexed Term

Agriculture and Food

Added Author

Brooks, Jonathan.

Filipski, Mateusz.

Jonasson, Erik.

Taylor, J. Edward.

Other Standard Identifier

10.1787/5kg26l5kjp22-en doi