Liberalizing Egypt's Agriculture: a Quadratic Programming Analysis

Liberalizing Egypt's Agriculture: a Quadratic Programming Analysis

Author: 
Lofgren, Hans
Place: 
Oxford
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Oxford University Press
Date published: 
1993
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Journal of African Economies
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Journal of African Economies Volume 2 Issue 2 October 1993 pp. 238-261
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Using a quadratic price-endogenous programming model, this study analyses the liberalization of Egypt's agriculture through a case study of the Minoufia governorate based on 1986/87 data. The results suggest that the introduction of international price equivalents and relaxed cropping constraints would lead to significant increases in farmer incomes and in the economic return to sector sources. However, the relative income gap between small and large farmers would increase.

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CITATION: Lofgren, Hans. Liberalizing Egypt's Agriculture: a Quadratic Programming Analysis . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 1993. Journal of African Economies Volume 2 Issue 2 October 1993 pp. 238-261 - Available at: https://library.au.int/liberalizing-egypts-agriculture-quadratic-programming-analysis