Smart Subsidy? : Welfare and Distributional Implications of Malawi’s FISP
It is often argued that subsidizing fertilizer and other inputs is desirable both to boost agricultural production and to help poor farmers. This analysis of Malawi’s huge Farmer Input Subsidy Program highlights a tension between these two objectives: The more FISP increases fertilizer use and the...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2016
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/07/26595743/smart-subsidy-welfare-distributional-implications-malawi’s-fisp http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24946 |