Titlebook: What Price Food?; Agricultural Price-P Paul Streeten Book 1987 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1987 agricult

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Incoine Distribution and Poverty,ion in real income is larger for the higher income consumers, because they spend more on food. This reduction in turn will reduce employment and income of the poor in those sectors on which the expenditure of the better off is reduced. The poor therefore suffer both directly, as a result of the incr

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Protecting the Poor in the Transition, producer prices have an important role to play, in conjunction with the right technological package. Higher yields, higher profits, and higher incomes to farmers and farm-workers can then be combined with greater output and lower prices of food. (For any one country the benefits of productivity gro

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Small Farmers and Employment,they can be very expensive and may make, by themselves, only a limited contribution to a long-term solution. For this, it is necessary to raise the earning capacity of the poor, either by generating employment opportunities or by enabling them to grow more productively the food they themselves consu

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Rural-Urban Migration,erative opportunities in the rural sector have been limited. Second, perceived income and security differentials in the two sectors have been high. Third, productivity in food production is often very low as a result of the poor quality of natural resources and low investment in infrastructure, irri

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The Budgetary Constraint, producer prices high and consumer prices low by a general system of deficiency payments to farmers or general food subsidies to consumers. Such a system is possible only if the food is consumed in processed form (e.g. bread). Otherwise, food will be bought at the low, subsidized prices and resold a

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