Can Risk Averse Competitive Input Providers Serve Farmers Efficiently in Developing Countries?

Can Risk Averse Competitive Input Providers Serve Farmers Efficiently in Developing Countries?

Under price ceilings and quality floors for agricultural inputs in cash crop sectors in developing countries where credit markets are weak, imperfect information on the ability of farmers to pay for their inputs at the end of the cropping season ma...

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Main Authors: Makdissi, Paul, Wodon, Quentin
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:English
Published: 2012
Subjects:
AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS
AGRICULTURAL INPUTS
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION SYSTEMS
AGRICULTURAL SECTORS
AGRICULTURE
COCOA
COFFEE
COMMODITY
CONSUMER SURPLUS
CONTRACT FARMING
CORRUPTION
COTTON
COTTON PRODUCTION
COTTON SECTOR
CREDIT MARKETS
CREDIT RATING
CREDIT RATING SYSTEM
CROP
CROPPING
CROPS
ECONOMIC MODELS
ELASTICITY
ELASTICITY OF DEMAND
ELASTICITY OF SUPPLY
EQUILIBRIUM
EXPECTED UTILITY
EXPECTED VALUE
EXPORT CROPS
FARM
FARMER
FARMERS
FERTILIZERS
FREE ACCESS
GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES
GROUNDNUT
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
INEFFICIENCY
INELASTIC DEMAND
INEQUALITY
INTERNATIONAL BANK
LABOR MARKET
LABOR MARKETS
MARGINAL BENEFITS
MARGINAL COST
NASH EQUILIBRIUM
NATURAL RESOURCES
OLIGOPOLY
OPTIMIZATION
PERFECT COMPETITION
POLITICAL ECONOMY
PRICE CEILINGS
PRIVATIZATION
PRODUCE
PRODUCER ORGANIZATIONS
PRODUCTION COST
PRODUCTION FUNCTION
PRODUCTION SYSTEMS
PUBLIC GOOD
REPAYMENT
RISK AVERSE
RISK AVERSION
RURAL CREDIT
SEEDS
SMALL SCALE FARMERS
SOCIAL WELFARE
TRAGEDY OF THE COMMONS
UTILITY FUNCTION
WEALTH
Online Access:http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000158349_20090429161327
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4112

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