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Protecting the Poor in the Transition

In: What Price Food?

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  • Paul Streeten

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It has been argued that the ultimate resolution of the fundamental dilemma with which we started must be found in productivity growth, and that higher producer prices have an important role to play, in conjunction with the right technological package. Higher yields, higher profits, and higher incomes to farmers and farm-workers can then be combined with greater output and lower prices of food. (For any one country the benefits of productivity growth can be passed on to foreign consumers in the form of lower prices. But the proposition remains true for the world as a whole.) This process takes time, and until its benefits are evident, the poor buyers of food may starve.

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  • Paul Streeten, 1987. "Protecting the Poor in the Transition," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: What Price Food?, chapter 13, pages 66-70, Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-18921-2_13
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-18921-2_13
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