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The political effects of agricultural subsidies in Africa : (Record no. 62389)

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control field 62389
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control field MX-TxCIM
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control field 20211006082243.0
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022 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD SERIAL NUMBER
International Standard Serial Number 0305-750X
024 8# - OTHER STANDARD IDENTIFIER
Standard number or code https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2016.06.011
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Original cataloging agency MX-TxCIM
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Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
9 (RLIN) 15023
Personal name Dionne, K.Y.
245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The political effects of agricultural subsidies in Africa :
Remainder of title evidence from Malawi
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Oxford (United Kingdom) :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Elsevier,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2016.
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General note Peer review
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Summary, etc. Across sub-Saharan Africa agricultural subsidy programs have again become a common strategy for combatting rural poverty, increasing agricultural production, and reducing food insecurity. Despite a large literature examining subsidies’ effects on output and welfare, little is known about their political effects. This paper examines Malawi’s Agricultural Input Subsidy Programme, one of the largest and most expensive programs implemented, which was launched by the government in 2005. We examine whether the incumbent party, the Democratic Progressive Party headed by president Bingu wa Mutharika, benefited from Malawi’s subsidy program by examining a longitudinal dataset of 1,846 rural Malawians interviewed in 2008 and again in 2010. The individual-level data show no evidence that the subsidy program was targeted to Mutharika’s co-ethnics or co-partisans. Our analysis further demonstrates that the subsidy program increased support for the incumbent party. These results suggest that even when parties are unable or unwilling to target distributional programs at the local level, they may nonetheless derive political benefits. As anti-poverty programs—including agricultural subsidies to small-scale farmers—become increasingly common across the continent, our results suggest that they may help to explain patterns of party affiliation and vote choice, particularly where traditional patterns of partisan affiliation related to ethnic or regional identities are weak.
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Language note Text in English
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Fertilizers
Miscellaneous information AGROVOC
Source of heading or term
9 (RLIN) 1111
650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Subsidies
Source of heading or term AGROVOC
9 (RLIN) 6895
650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Politics
Source of heading or term AGROVOC
9 (RLIN) 5026
651 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
Source of heading or term AGROVOC
9 (RLIN) 1319
Geographic name Malawi
651 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
Source of heading or term AGROVOC
9 (RLIN) 1316
Geographic name Africa
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
9 (RLIN) 15024
Personal name Horowitz, J.
773 0# - HOST ITEM ENTRY
Related parts v. 87, p. 215-226
Place, publisher, and date of publication Oxford (United Kingdom) : Elsevier, 2016.
International Standard Serial Number 0305-750X
Title World Development
Record control number 444788
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Koha item type Article
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08/05/2020   08/05/2020 Article Not Lost Dewey Decimal Classification     Reprints Collection   CIMMYT Knowledge Center: John Woolston Library CIMMYT Knowledge Center: John Woolston Library 08/05/2020

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