AGRICULTURAL PRICE POLICY, FOOD AID AND INPUT SUBSIDY REFORMS IN BURKINA FASO
研究了布基纳法索1980年代初因农业衰退而启动的结构调整改革，通过多区域多商品模型模拟评估了取消投入补贴、提高官方市场价格和减少粮食援助三项政策的效果。
This paper examines the agrarian decline in Burkina Faso that prompted structural adjustment reforms by the World Bank and the IMF in the early 1980s. Official interventions in the cereals, cotton and fertiliser sectors are examined, and an analysis made of regional impacts of the proposed reforms on producers and consumers. Counter‐factual simulations with a multi‐region, multi‐commodity agricultural sector model are used to evaluate three policies: eliminating input subsidies, increasing official market commodity prices, and reducing food aid imports. Model results show that these reforms would improve agricultural‐sector performance, but depend on cotton exports to pay for fertiliser, contrary to government self‐sufficiency objectives. Relaxing capacity constraints on official marketing operations would also need to be eliminated to achieve reform objectives.