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Title: | The Impact of Different Policy Choices on Income Distribution after Food Production Shocks in Zimbabwe: A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis |
Author: | Chitiga, Margaret |
Year: | 2004 |
Periodical: | Eastern Africa Social Science Research Review (ISSN 1027-1775) |
Volume: | 20 |
Issue: | 1 |
Period: | January |
Pages: | 1-26 |
Language: | English |
Notes: | biblio. refs. |
Geographic terms: | Zimbabwe Southern Africa |
Subjects: | price policy food prices income distribution economic models Politics and Government Economics and Trade Agriculture, Agronomy, Forestry Agriculture and state food production price control |
External link: | http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/eastern_africa_social_science_research_review/v020/20.1chitiga.pdf |
Abstract: | Government controls on the price of food through stock adjustment and through imports of food are explicitly modelled in a computable general equilibrium for Zimbabwe. The results of policy simulations show that allowing the price of food to increase during a drought period increases incomes of food producers only and allowing the price to fall hurts food producers and most groups in the economy via reduced incomes. A comparison of a policy of food imports to one of domestic stock adjustment shows that the latter yields better results for income distribution and output performance. App., bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] |