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What Price Food?

Agricultural Price-Policies in Developing Countries

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  • © 1987

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  1. Paul Streeten
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Table of contents (24 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. The Dilemma

    • Paul Streeten
    Pages 1-4

  3. Multiplicity of Objectives

    • Paul Streeten
    Pages 5-7

  4. Towards a Country and Crop Typology

    • Paul Streeten
    Pages 8-10

  5. What Are Price Policies?

    • Paul Streeten
    Pages 11-13

  6. Allocational Efficiency and Higher Food Production

    • Paul Streeten
    Pages 14-28

  7. Subsidies to Inputs

    • Paul Streeten
    Pages 29-30

  8. The Total Picture

    • Paul Streeten
    Pages 31-34

  9. Aggregate Growth

    • Paul Streeten
    Pages 35-38

  10. National Food Security and Food Aid

    • Paul Streeten
    Pages 39-44

  11. Price Stabilization

    • Paul Streeten
    Pages 45-52

  12. Export Crops v. Food for Domestic Consumption

    • Paul Streeten
    Pages 53-59

  13. Incoine Distribution and Poverty

    • Paul Streeten
    Pages 60-65

  14. Protecting the Poor in the Transition

    • Paul Streeten
    Pages 66-70

  15. Small Farmers and Employment

    • Paul Streeten
    Pages 71-73

  16. Rural-Urban Migration

    • Paul Streeten
    Pages 74-76

  17. The Politics of Food Prices

    • Paul Streeten
    Pages 77-84

  18. The Budgetary Constraint

    • Paul Streeten
    Pages 85-87

  19. The Balance of Payments Constraint

    • Paul Streeten
    Pages 88-92

  20. International Implications

    • Paul Streeten
    Pages 93-95
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The starting point of Paul Streeten's book is the dilemma, faced by policy makers in many developing countries: should the price of food be high, in order to stimulate production, or low, in order to prevent poor food buyers from starving? The author goes on to discuss the role of prices in the light of these and other objectives. 'It is the work of one of our wisest scholars on what I consider to be the key policy issue for economic development in the 1980s...this provocative essay will be required reading for anyone working on agricultural price policy.' C.Peter Timmer 'It provides solid and practical guidance to scholars and decision-makers. It is lucid, balanced and, above all, useful.' Robert Klitgaard 'Paul Streeten is well known for his gift of explaining the pros and cons of difficult policy issues in a clear, simple and realistic way, appealing to policy-makers, students and the wider development community, as well as to academic colleagues. This gift is fully displayed in his new book, and readers are bound to emerge with a better awareness of the conflicts and policy reforms which are involved.' H.W.Singer

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: What Price Food?

  • Book Subtitle: Agricultural Price-Policies in Developing Countries

  • Authors: Paul Streeten

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18921-2

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Economics & Finance Collection, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1987

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-44196-1Published: 17 November 1987

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-18921-2Published: 03 January 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 127

  • Topics: Development Economics, Industries, Agriculture

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