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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
agricultural and biological sciences
Statistical significance of indicators of efficiency and incentives: Examples from west african agriculture
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Volume 67, No. 4, Year 1985
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Indicators of efficiency and incentives derived from trade theory, such as the domestic resource cost coefficient (DRC) and effective protection (EP), are generally presented as simple means. Analysis of their distributions, using farm data on millet and sorghum production from West Africa, shows them to be highly variable and, in some cases, to be significantly skewed. The analysis also shows the indicators to be highly elastic to changes in such parameters as input and output prices. If this variability is not considered when making inferences from such data, policy recommendations can be seriously misleading because they are based on different farming populations. © 1985 American Agricultural Economics Association.
Authors & Co-Authors
McIntire, John
Ethiopia, Addis Ababa
International Livestock Centre for Africa Ilca Addis Ababa
Delgado, Christopher L.
United States, Washington, D.c.
International Food Policy Research Institute
Statistics
Citations: 11
Authors: 2
Affiliations: 2
Identifiers
Doi:
10.2307/1241812
ISSN:
00029092
e-ISSN:
14678276
Research Areas
Health System And Policy
Study Locations
Multi-countries