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Agricultural market reforms in Egypt: initial adjustments in local output markets
This study represents one of the first attempts to examine the process of adjustment within the farming and marketing sectors to the reform of agricultural markets in Egypt.
Agricultural market reforms in Egypt: initial adjustments in local input markets
The high use of modern inputs in Egypt's agricultural system well before the reforms has been very favorable to the development of private markets, particularly in the fertilizer sector.
The Common Agricultural Policy and African countries
The effects of international remittances on poverty, inequality, and development in rural Egypt
Despite their importance, there has been little analysis and even less agreement about the effects of international remittances on the economies of labor-exporting countries.
Worker remittances and inequality in rural Egypt
The Egyptian rice market
Food subsidies in Egypts: Implications for the agricultural sector
Food subsidies affect various sectors of the Egyptian economy, but their influence on agriculture, which employs a considerable share of the nation's resources, seems particularly strong (von Braun and de Haen, 1983).
Food subsidies in Egypt: Macroeconomic and trade implications
The principal theme of this chapter is the implications of the Egyptian food subsidies for such macroeconomic measures as nonfarm output, the government's budget, inflation, the exchange rate, and the balance of payments.