Liberalizing Egypt's Agriculture: a Quadratic Programming Analysis

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.