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Targeting Inputs : Experimental Evidence from Tanzania
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Year: 2019 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : The World Bank,

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Input subsidy programs (ISP) often have two conflicting targeting goals: selecting individuals with the highest marginal return to inputs on efficiency grounds, or the poorest individuals on equity grounds, allowing for a secondary market to restore efficiency gains. To study this targeting dilemma, this paper implements a field experiment where beneficiaries of an ISP were selected via a lottery or a local committee. In lottery villages, the study finds evidence of a secondary market as beneficiaries are more likely to sell inputs to non-beneficiaries. In contrast, in non-lottery villages, the study finds evidence of displacement of private fertilizer sales yet no elite capture. The impacts of the ISP on agricultural productivity and welfare are limited, suggesting that resources should be directed at complementary investments, such as improving soil quality and irrigation.


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Agricultural input subsidies : the recent Malawi experience
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ISBN: 0191506494 0199683522 0191763063 9780191506499 9780191763069 9780198705819 0198705816 Year: 2013 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : Oxford Scholarship Online,

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This title provides a detailed, comprehensive, and objective analysis of Malawi's agricultural input subsidy programme, its history, implementation, achievements, and shortcomings.

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