The Short-Run Impact of Import Bans on Poverty : The Case of Nigeria (2008–2012)

The Short-Run Impact of Import Bans on Poverty : The Case of Nigeria (2008–2012)

The Nigerian government uses food import prohibition as part of policies that seeks to protect existing domestic producers and reduce the country's dependence on imports. This paper argues that such policies have negative effects on net consumers of such products due to higher prices. With 70 p...

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Main Authors: Dabalen, Andrew, Nguyen, Nga Thi Viet
Format: Journal Article
Published: Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2019
Subjects:
FOOD IMPORTS
POVERTY
IMPORT BAN
TRADE POLICY
FOOD SECURITY
CONSUMPTION
HOUSEHOLD SPENDING
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32776
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spelling okr-10986-327762021-05-25T10:54:37Z The Short-Run Impact of Import Bans on Poverty : The Case of Nigeria (2008–2012) Dabalen, Andrew Nguyen, Nga Thi Viet FOOD IMPORTS POVERTY IMPORT BAN TRADE POLICY FOOD SECURITY CONSUMPTION HOUSEHOLD SPENDING The Nigerian government uses food import prohibition as part of policies that seeks to protect existing domestic producers and reduce the country's dependence on imports. This paper argues that such policies have negative effects on net consumers of such products due to higher prices. With 70 percent of poor households' budget spent on food, and about 13 percent of the total budget devoted to products subject to import bans, poor households are vulnerable to such trade policies. Prices of some import prohibited food products are found to be higher than what they would be in the absence of such bans. The elimination of import bans is estimated to reduce national poverty rates by as much as 2.6 percentage points. 2019-12-04T21:32:54Z 2019-12-04T21:32:54Z 2018-06 Journal Article World Bank Economic Review 1564-698X http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32776 CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research Africa Nigeria
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topic FOOD IMPORTS
POVERTY
IMPORT BAN
TRADE POLICY
FOOD SECURITY
CONSUMPTION
HOUSEHOLD SPENDING
spellingShingle FOOD IMPORTS
POVERTY
IMPORT BAN
TRADE POLICY
FOOD SECURITY
CONSUMPTION
HOUSEHOLD SPENDING
Dabalen, Andrew
Nguyen, Nga Thi Viet
The Short-Run Impact of Import Bans on Poverty : The Case of Nigeria (2008–2012)
geographic_facet Africa
Nigeria
description The Nigerian government uses food import prohibition as part of policies that seeks to protect existing domestic producers and reduce the country's dependence on imports. This paper argues that such policies have negative effects on net consumers of such products due to higher prices. With 70 percent of poor households' budget spent on food, and about 13 percent of the total budget devoted to products subject to import bans, poor households are vulnerable to such trade policies. Prices of some import prohibited food products are found to be higher than what they would be in the absence of such bans. The elimination of import bans is estimated to reduce national poverty rates by as much as 2.6 percentage points.
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author Dabalen, Andrew
Nguyen, Nga Thi Viet
author_facet Dabalen, Andrew
Nguyen, Nga Thi Viet
author_sort Dabalen, Andrew
title The Short-Run Impact of Import Bans on Poverty : The Case of Nigeria (2008–2012)
title_short The Short-Run Impact of Import Bans on Poverty : The Case of Nigeria (2008–2012)
title_full The Short-Run Impact of Import Bans on Poverty : The Case of Nigeria (2008–2012)
title_fullStr The Short-Run Impact of Import Bans on Poverty : The Case of Nigeria (2008–2012)
title_full_unstemmed The Short-Run Impact of Import Bans on Poverty : The Case of Nigeria (2008–2012)
title_sort short-run impact of import bans on poverty : the case of nigeria (2008–2012)
publisher Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
publishDate 2019
url http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32776
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