Improving the Impact of Market Reform on Agricultural Productivity in Africa: How Institutional Design Makes a Difference



generalized conclusions about the impact of reform on productivity growth are unwarranted.
Section 3 identifies some of the factors accounting for the variations in performance across the
reformed agricultural systems in Africa. Inadequate attention to key institutional design questions
arising from the transition to a market economy has maintained a situation of high transaction
costs and uncertainties in the coordination of input generation and distribution, farm credit, and
the various stages of commodity marketing in Africa. Section 4 explores potential options for
promoting agricultural productivity growth through increased attention to the institutional details
of economic policy in a market economy.



More intriguing information

1. Une nouvelle vision de l'économie (The knowledge society: a new approach of the economy)
2. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
3. The resources and strategies that 10-11 year old boys use to construct masculinities in the school setting
4. The Nobel Memorial Prize for Robert F. Engle
5. Knowledge, Innovation and Agglomeration - regionalized multiple indicators and evidence from Brazil
6. The Demand for Specialty-Crop Insurance: Adverse Selection and Moral Hazard
7. The name is absent
8. Cross border cooperation –promoter of tourism development
9. The name is absent
10. The name is absent