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Modelling the Distributional Implications of Agricultural Policies in Developing Countries: The Development Policy Evaluation Model (DEVPEM)

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  • Jonathan Brooks

    (OECD)

  • Mateusz Filipski

    (University of California, Davis)

  • Erik Jonasson

    (Lund University)

  • J. Edward Taylor

    (University of California, Davis)

Abstract

This paper presents the Development Policy Evaluation Model (DEVPEM), a new simulation model which captures four critical aspects of rural economies in developing countries: (1) the role of the household as both a producer and a consumer of food crops; (2) high transaction costs of participating in markets; (3) market linkages among heterogeneous rural producers and consumers; (4) the imperfect convertibility of land from one use to another. The results of simulations for six country models show that no untargeted agricultural policy intervention is pro-poor within the rural economy. While agricultural policy instruments are less efficient at raising rural incomes than direct payments, the degree of inefficiency of some market interventions, notably input subsidies, is not inevitably as high as observed in developed OECD countries.

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  • Jonathan Brooks & Mateusz Filipski & Erik Jonasson & J. Edward Taylor, 2011. "Modelling the Distributional Implications of Agricultural Policies in Developing Countries: The Development Policy Evaluation Model (DEVPEM)," OECD Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Papers 50, OECD Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:oec:agraaa:50-en
    DOI: 10.1787/5kg26l5kjp22-en
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    1. Costa, L.V. & Helfand, S. & Souza, A.P., 2018. "Rural Development Policies and Conditional Cash Transfers in Brazil: An Impact Evaluation of the IFAD-Supported Gavi o Project and Potential Synergies with Bolsa Fam lia," 2018 Conference, July 28-August 2, 2018, Vancouver, British Columbia 277263, International Association of Agricultural Economists.
    2. Jonasson, Erik & Filipski, Mateusz & Brooks, Jonathan & Taylor, J. Edward, 2014. "Modeling the welfare impacts of agricultural policies in developing countries," Journal of Policy Modeling, Elsevier, vol. 36(1), pages 63-82.
    3. Jonasson, Erik & Filipski, Mateusz & Brooks, Jonathan & Taylor, J. Edward, 2012. "Modeling the Welfare Implications of Agricultural Policies in Developing Countries," Working Papers 2012:11, Lund University, Department of Economics.
    4. Scott Jackson, 2015. "Standardizing the selection of countries for benchmarking," Regional Science Policy & Practice, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 7(1), pages 49-60, March.

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    agricultural policy; general equilibrium; household analysis; welfare;
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