Documents et rapports

Turkey agricultural sector model (anglais)

The Turkey Agricultural Sector Model (TASM) has been developed to: (i) determine if Turkey has a comparative advantage in agriculture and, if so, in which products; (ii) identify changes in cropping patterns...

Portugal and the common market : a quantitative framework analysis (anglais)

The objective of this paper is to design a quantitative framework for the evaluation of alternative development policies applied to the agricultural sector of Portugal, with a view to the problems created...

Food risk and the poor (anglais)

This paper analyzes food insecurity in rural areas from the point of view of poverty alleviation. By developing a conceptual framework and a general class of poverty measures, the paper analyzes the implications...

Foreign trade and factor incomes in Portugal : an application of a general equilibrium model (anglais)

One empirical and two methodological concerns form the basis of this paper: (i) the empirical concern is to estimate income multipliers associated with foreign trade for Portugal; (ii) one methodological...

The demand for calories in developing countries (anglais)

This paper uses household survey data on consumption to analyze the determinants of calorie intakes in developing countries. It relies on characteristic demand analysis for a demand function specification...

Analyzing nutritional effects of agricultural projects (anglais)

The purpose of this note is to outline simple methods that may be useful to analyze the nutritional impact of agricultural projects. All agricultural projects may have important implications for the nutritional...

Price policy and basic needs : implications and estimates (anglais)

Price policy is an important tool of government intervention in the market for agricultural goods and a primary way of influencing consumption, production, income distribution and trade. This paper specifically...

The alleviation of malnutrition : impact and cost effectiveness of official programs (anglais)

Food distribution schemes have acquired increasing popularity as a basic instrument for the alleviation of poverty. However, high leakages to unintended beneficiaries and the penalties paid by the farming...

Economic pricing of infrequently traded commodities (anglais)

There has been considerable controversy in the years leading up to 1980 regarding the pricing of infrequently traded outputs in the economic analysis of agricultural projects. Such outputs include milk...

The evaluation of the benefits of basic need policies (anglais)

A theoretical framework for the analysis of market intervention policies of goods related to the satisfaction of basic human needs is presented. The method allows quantification of such social benefits...

Peasant agriculture and risk preferences in Northeast Brazil : a statistical sampling approach - chapter 8 (anglais)

Optimal price intervention policies when production is risky - chapter 19 (anglais)

Mathematical programming models of market equilibrium with risk : equivalent quantity and price formations and purified duality (anglais)

Two alternative formulations of self-dual quantity and price models are presented for the computation of market equilibrium with risk when farmers are risk averse and behave according to an E-V utility...

Competitive demand structures under risk in agricultural linear programming models (anglais)

A method is presented for solving agricultural sector models under risk to obtain perfectly competitive levels of outputs and prices in all product markets when producers behave according to an E, V decision...