The short‐run trade‐off between food subsidies and agricultural production subsidies in developing countries
通过印度案例的多部门经济模型，比较了食品补贴和农业生产补贴对贫困家庭短期福利的影响，发现生产补贴对所有食品购买者的实际收入提升更大，而定向补贴对城乡贫困群体各有优势，建议短期联合使用。
The trade‐offs resulting from the choice of policy alternatives to improve short‐run welfare of poor households in developing countries are examined through a comparison of food subsidies and agricultural production subsidies. Using India as a case study, the analysis is undertaken with an economy‐wide multisector model. Comparing general (untargeted) food and production subsidies, the results show larger real income gains for all food buyers through production subsidies. Targeted food subsidies are more beneficial for the urban poor, while the rural poor benefit more from targeted production subsidies, suggesting the need to use the two subsidies as a joint policy package in the short run.