Who benefit from Malawi's targeted farm input subsidy program?

Forum for Development Studies

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-25

  Holden, Stein T ^a   Lunduka, Rodney W ^a,b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b CAB International   (Kenya)

Author keywords

corruption; household perceptions; impacts; input subsidies; leakages; Malawi; targeting efficiency

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; CORRUPTION; FARMING SYSTEM; FOOD PRODUCTION; FOOD SECURITY; IMPORT; PERCEPTION; SUBSIDY SYSTEM;

MALAWI;

EID: 84874402784     PISSN: 08039410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08039410.2012.688858     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Angrist, J. A., and, Pischke, J.-S. 2009. Mostly Harmless Econometrics: An Empiricist's Companion, Princeton, NJ Oxford: Princeton University Press.
2. Barahona, C. 2005. " Experience and innovation: How the research method evolved ". In Starter Packs: A Strategy to Fight Hunger in Developing Countries?, Edited by: Levy, S. 77-92. Wallingford: CABI Publishing.
3. Chinsinga, B. 2005. " Practical and policy dilemmas of targeting free inputs ". In Starter Packs: A Strategy to Fight Hunger in Developing Countries?, Edited by: Levy, S. 141-153. Wallingford: CABI Publishing.
4. Chinsinga, B., B. Dulani and H. Kayuni, 2004, 2003 winter TIP evaluation qualitative study, in S. Levy, ed., Starter Packs: A Strategy to Fight Hunger in Developing Countries? (in CD), Wallingford: CABI Publishing, 97 pp.
5. Coady, D., Grosh, M., and, Hoddinott, J. 2004. Targeting outcomes redux. World Bank Research Observer, 19 (1): 61-85. (doi:10.1093/wbro/lkh016) (Pubitemid 38861476)
6. Conning, J., and, Kevane, M. 2002. Community based targeting mechanisms for social safety nets. World Development, 30 (3): 375-394. (doi:10.1016/S0305- 750X(01)00119-X) (Pubitemid 34262346)
7. Cullen, A., and, Lawson, M. 2005. " Pack distribution and the role of vouchers ". In Starter Packs: A Strategy to Fight Hunger in Developing Countries?, Edited by: Levy, S. 55-66. Wallingford: CABI Publishing.
8. Denning, G., Kabembe, P., Sanchez, P., Malik, A., Flor, R., Harawa, R., Nkhoma, P., Zamba, C., Banda, C., Magombo, C., Keating, M., Wangila, J., and, Sachs, J. 2009. Input subsidies to improve smallholder maize productivity in Malawi: Toward an African Green Revolution. Plos Biology, 7 (1). www.plosbiology.org (doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1000023)
9. Dorward, A., E. Chirwa, V. Kelly, T. Jayne, R. Slater and D. Boughton, 2008, Evaluation of the 2006/07 Agricultural Input Subsidy Programme, Malawi, Final Report, Multi-donor publication, Study undertaken for the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, Malawi, DFID, USAID and Future Agricultures Consortium.
10. Ebert, U. 2005. Optimal anti-poverty programmes: Horizontal equity and the paradox of targeting. Economica, 72 (287): 453-468. (doi:10.1111/j.0013- 0427.2005.00425.x) (Pubitemid 41638917)
11. Harrigan, J. 2005. " Food security policies and starter pack: A challenge for donors? ". In Starter Packs: A Strategy to Fight Hunger in Developing Countries?, Edited by: Levy, S. 229-246. Wallingford: CABI Publishing.
12. Holden, S. T., 2009a, Institutions, Restitution, and Markets, Plenary paper presented at the Environmental and Resource Economics Conference in Cape Town, 20-22 May 2009.
13. Holden, S. T., 2009b, Power Traps or Poverty Traps? Institutions, Markets, and Environmental and Livelihood Restoration, Paper presented at the NFU Conference, University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway, November 2009.
14. Holden, S. T. and R. Lunduka, 2010, Yara and the Fertilizer Industry in Malawi. Understanding the Issues 1/2010, Oslo and Lilongwe: Norwegian Church Aid.
15. Holden, S. T. and R. Lunduka, 2011, Cash Constraints and Sticky Input Expenditures: -Experimental Evidence from Malawi, Paper presented at the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists 18th Annual Conference, 29 June-2 July 2011, Rome.
16. Holden, S. and A. Tostensen, 2011, Appraisal of the Malawi Medium-Term Plan for the Farm Inputs Subsidy Program (FISP-MTP) (2011-2016), Report to NORAD, Oslo.
17. Keen, M. 1992. Needs and targeting. Economic Journal, 102 (410): 67-79. (doi:10.2307/2234852)
18. Kydd, J., and, Christiansen, R. 1982. Structural change in Malawi since independence: Consequences of a development strategy based on large-scale agriculture. World Development, 10 (5): 355-375. (doi:10.1016/0305-750X(82) 90083-3)
19. Levy, S. 2005. Starter Packs: A Strategy to Fight Hunger in Developing Countries?, Edited by: Levy, S. Wallingford: CABI Publishing.
20. Levy, S., and, Barahona, C. 2002. 2001/02 TIP: Main report of the evaluation programme, in S. Levy, ed., 2005, Starter Packs: A Strategy to Fight Hunger in Developing Countries? (in CD), Wallingford: CABI Publishing, 48 pp
21. Levy, S., C. Barahona and B. Chinsinga, 2004, Food Security, Social Protection and Growth/Poverty Reduction Synergies: The Starter PAck Programme. Reading: Calibre Consultants.
22. Logistic Unit, 2009, Final Report, Implementation of Agricultural Input Subsidy Programme 2008/09, Logistic Unit, Lilongwe, April 2009.
23. Malawi National Statistical Office, 2009, 2008 Population and Housing Census, final report, National Statistical Office, Lilongwe.
24. Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, 2008, The 2007/2008 Input Subsidy Programme Review Report, An Internal Review, Lilongwe: MoAFS.
25. Mkandawire, T., 2005, Targeting and Universalism in Poverty Reduction, Social Policy and Development Programme Paper No. 23, Geneva: United Nations Research Institute for Social Development.
26. Øygard, R., R. Garcia, A. Guttormsen, R. Kachule, A. Mwanaumo, I. Mwanawina, E. Sjaastad, M. Wik, A. Bonnerjee, J. Braithwaite, S. Carvalho, K. Ezemenari, C. Graham and A. Thomson, 2003, The Maze of Maize: Improving Input and Output Market Access for Poor Small Holders in Southern Africa Region, The Experience of Zambia and Malawi, Report No. 26, Department of Economics and Resource Management, Agricultural University of Norway, Ås, Norway.
27. Peters, P. E. 2004. Inequality and social conflict over land in Africa. Journal of Agrarian Change, 4: 269-314. (doi:10.1111/j.1471-0366.2004.00080.x) (Pubitemid 38908222)
28. Peters, P. E., and, Kambewa, D. 2007. Whose security? Deepening social conflict over customary land in the shadow of land tenure reform in Malawi. The Journal of Modern African Studies, 45: 447-472. (doi:10.1017/S0022278X07002704) (Pubitemid 47108374)
29. Potter, H., 2005, The players and the policy issues, in S. Levy, ed., Starter Packs: A Strategy to Fight Hunger in Developing Countries? Oxford: CABI Publishing, pp. 29-40.
30. Ricker-Gilbert, J. and T. S. Jayne, 2008, The Impact of Fertilizer Subsidies on National Fertilizer Use: An Example from Malawi, Paper presented at the American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, 27-29 July 2008.
31. Ricker-Gilbert, J. and T. S. Jayne, 2009, Do Fertilizer Subsidies Affect the Demand for Commercial Fertilizer? An Example from Malawi, Contributed paper presented at the International Association of Agricultural Economists Conference, Beijing, China, 16-22 August 2009.
32. Ricker-Gilbert, J., Jayne, T. S., and, Chirwa, A. 2011. Subsidies and crowding out: A double-hurdle model of fertilizer demand in Malawi. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 93 (1): 26-42. (doi:10.1093/ajae/aaq122)
33. Sen, A. 1995. " The political economy of targeting ". In Public Spending and the Poor: Theory and Evidence, Edited by: van de Walle, D. and Nead, K. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press.
34. Wooldridge, J. 2005. Simple solutions to the initial conditions problem in dynamic, nonlinear panel data models with unobserved heterogeneity. Journal of Applied Econometrics, 20 (1): 39-54. (doi:10.1002/jae.770) (Pubitemid 40854807)
35. World Bank, 2011, Malawi: Poverty Reduction Support Credit, Fertilizer Procurement Review of the 2010/11 Farm Input Subsidy Program (FISP) December 2010-February 2011, Lilongwe: The World Bank Malawi Office.