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Food Subsidies in Developing Countries
Costs, Benefits, and Policy Options

Edited by Per Pinstrup-Andersen
374 pages / 1988
Published for IFPRI by Johns Hopkins University Press
This book is available for download in PDF format as an entire document or by chapter.

Entire Book

(PDF 19.4M)

Book Chapters:

    Table of Contents; List of Tables and Figures; and Preface
    (PDF 372 K)

    Part I. Introduction

    Chapter 1: The Social and Economic Effects of Consumer-Oriented Food Subsidies: A Summary of Current Evidence
    Per Pinstrup-Andersen

    (PDF 833 K)

    Part II. Syntheses of Findings

    Chapter 2: The Effectiveness of Consumer-Oriented Food Subsidies in Reaching Rationing and Income Transfer Goals
    Per Pinstrup-Andersen and Harold Alderman

    (PDF 916K)

    Chapter 3: Food Consumption and Nutritional Effects of Consumer-Oriented Food Subsidies
    Shubh K. Kumar and Harold Alderman
    (PDF 783K)

    Chapter 4: Macroeconomic and Trade Implications of Consumer-Oriented Food Subsidies
    Grant M. Scobie
    (PDF 1.5 M)

    Chapter 5: Explicit versus Implicit Food Subsidies: Distribution of Costs
    Alberto Valdés

    (PDF 842K)

    Chapter 6: Implications of Consumer-Oriented Food Subsidies for Domestic Agriculture
    Joachim von Braun
    (PDF 826K)

    Chapter 7: Political Calculations in Subsidizing Food
    Raymond Hopkins
    (PDF 1.1M)

    Chapter 8: Design and Implementation Considerations for Consumer-Oriented Food Subsidies
    Beatrice Lorge Rogers
    (PDF 1.2M)

    Chapter 9: Alternatives to Consumer-Oriented Food Subsidies for Achieving Nutritional Objectives
    Eileen T. Kennedy
    (PDF 610K)

    Chapter 10: Income-Augmenting Interventions and Food Self-Sufficiency for Enhancing Food Consumption among the Poor
    Shlomo Reutlinger
    (PDF 475K)

    Part III. Results from Country Studies

    Chapter 11: Food Subsidies in Egypt: Benefit Distribution and Nutritional Effects
    Harold Alderman

    (PDF 688K)

    Chapter 12: Food Subsidies in Egypt: Implications for the Agricultural Sector
    Joachim von Braun
    (PDF 668K)

    Chapter 13: Food Subsidies in Egypt: Macroeconomic and Trade Implications
    Grant Scobie
    (PDF 568K)

    Chapter 14: Food Subsidies in the Philippines: Preliminary Results
    Marito Garcia

    (PDF 633K)

    Chapter 15: Structure, Costs, and Benefits of Food Subsidies in Bangladesh
    Raisuddin Ahmed
    (PDF 562K)

    Chapter 16: Costs and Benefits of Food Subsidies in India
    P.S. George
    (PDF 654K)

    Chapter 17: Pakistan's Ration System: Distribution of Costs and Benefits
    Beatrice Lorge Rogers
    (PDF 616K)

    Chapter 18: Food Subsidy Changes in Sri Lanka: The Short-Run Effect on the Poor
    Neville Edirisinghe
    (PDF 649K)

    Chapter 19: Effects of Brazilian Wheat Subsidies on Income Distribution and Trade
    Geraldo M. Calegar and G. Edward Schuh
    (PDF 534K)

    Chapter 20: Fiscal Cost and Welfare Effects of the Maize Subsidy in Mexico
    Nora Lustig
    (PDF 513K)

    Chapter 21: Design, Income Distribution, and Consumption Effects of Maize Pricing Policies in Zambia
    Shubh K. Kumar
    (PDF 585K)

    Chapter 22: Distributional Consequences of Alternative Food Policies in India
    Hans P. Binswanger and Jaime B. Quizon
    (PDF 860K)

    Part IV. Implications for Food Policy: Generalizing Beyond Study Countries

    Chapter 23: Some Macroeconomic Policy Implications of Consumer-Oriented Food Subsidies
    Ammar Siamwalla

    (PDF 448K)

    Chapter 24: Some Microeconomic Policy Implications of Consumer-Oriented Food Subsidies
    Per Pinstrup-Andersen
    (PDF 563K)

    References and Bibliography
    (PDF 1M)

    Contributors
    (PDF 157K)

    Index
    (PDF 496K)
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