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Author Okai, Matthew

Title Social Valuation in Agricultural Policy Analysis : Its Significance for Sub-Saharan Africa
Published Milton : Routledge, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (444 pages)
Series Routledge Revivals Ser
Routledge Revivals Ser
Contents Cover; Half Title; Dedication; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; List of Maps and Tables; List of Algebraic Symbols; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; 1 Framework for Social Valuation in Agricultural Policy Analysis; 2 Theoretical Basis for Social Valuation of Production Factors; 3 Economics of Resource Conservation; 4 Analysis of Domestic Constraints and Resource Sustainability; 5 Equity Aspects of Agricultural Pricing Policy; 6 Effects of Trade and Exchange Rate Policies on Incentive Structure; 7 Demand Analysis; 8 Analysis of Agricultural Supply Response
Summary First published in 1999, this volume is intended to encourage appreciation of the cardinal significance for integrating macroeconomic policy variables and environmental factors and any other relevant externalities into sectoral policy analysis as a tool for improving choice of strategic factors in agricultural development, investment of allocative efficiency in agriculture and environmental protection and overall agricultural development management. The main concern of Matthew Okai is for choosing realistic policy instruments to promote development, quantifying constraints and evaluating the impacts of policy on objectives
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Subject Agriculture and state -- Social aspects -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
Agriculture and state -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
Agriculture -- Social aspects -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
Agriculture and state.
Agriculture -- Social aspects.
Agriculture and state
Agriculture -- Social aspects
Sub-Saharan Africa
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780429794124
0429794126