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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International Implications,ions, world interdependence has greatly increased. According to the US Presidential Commission on World Hunger ‘world grain trade is so tightly integrated that a crop failure anywhere in the world may adversely affect the most remote villages … The lives of the estimated 800 million to be living in

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What Are Price Policies?, imagine an economy in which all prices are zero, all goods are rationed, and all incentives are moral. In a free market economy, prices combine the three functions. The main purpose of price policies is to achieve objectives that, in their absence, would not be achieved.

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The Dilemma,complementary goods and services, such as education and health services, for which income is not a sufficient condition, and the distribution of food within the household must meet the nutritional requirements of all its members.

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Allocational Efficiency and Higher Food Production,?’ The response is quite different in magnitude according to whether the price of a specific crop is raised relative to others. or whether the prices of all agricultural products are raised relative to the prices of industrial products. Supply responsiveness is much greater in the former case than i

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Subsidies to Inputs,dies should never encourage substitution of a scarcer factor for a more abundant factor. Though not inherent in subsidies, as is shown by Korea, in fact they often benefit only or mainly the large and rich farmer and, if accompanied by rationing, can actually deprive the small and poor farmer, who u

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National Food Security and Food Aid,e purpose of this brief section, we confine the meaning to reducing fluctuations in food consumption and to the international contribution to food security. Special attention will be paid to the role of food aid as a contribution to national food security.

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Rural-Urban Migration,ds that cost foreign exchange. Underpricing of agricultural products has contributed to the flow of migrants away from the land. It has been estimated that in Egypt price policies for wheat, rice, maize and cotton have reduced employment by about 5 per cent of the rural population.. If higher prices

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