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Beyond Market Liberalization: Welfare, Income Generation and Environmental Sustainability in Rural Madagascar book cover

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Beyond Market Liberalization Welfare, Income Generation and Environmental Sustainability in Rural Madagascar

Edited By Bart Minten Copyright 2000
278 Pages
by Routledge

This title was first published in 2000:  Most African countries experienced dramatic agricultural market reforms over the 1990s. This has resulted in significant changes in the operation of the agricultural markets and, consequently, in income generation and welfare of rural households. In the case of Madagascar, the results suggest that market reforms and corresponding adjustments in rural... Read more

1. Introduction

Bart Minten and Manfred Zeller

2. Market Liberalization and the Agricultural Marketing System

Bart Minten and Claude Randrianarisoa

3. Conceptual Framework, Survey Design, and Sampling Frame for Household and Community Level Analyses

Manfred Zeller and Bart Minten

4. Brief Description of Socioeconomic Situation and Changes in Indicators of Welfare

Manfred Zeller, Bart Minten, and Cecile Lapenu

5. Modern Input Use in Agriculture

Claude Randrianarisoa et al.

6. Factor Use and Agricultural Productivity

Bart Minten, Manfred Zeller, and Claude Randrianarisoa

7. Marketed Agricultural Surplus

Bart Minten, Claude Randrianarisoa, and Manfred Zeller

8. Non-agricultural and Total Incomes

Cecile Lapenu and Manfred Zeller

9. Consumption Expenditures

Bart Minten, Claude Randrianarisoa, and Manfred Zeller

10. Nutritional Status and Caloric and Protein Consumption

Cecile Lapenu, Manfred Zeller, and Eliane Ralison

11. The Critical Triangle Between Environmental Sustainability, Economic Growth, and Poverty Alleviation

Manfred Zeller et al.

12. Summary

Manfred Zeller et al.

Biography

Dr Bart Minten is assistant professor in agricultural and environmental economics at the Department of Agricultural and Environmental Economics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. He has a doctorate in agricultural and environmental economics from Cornell University, USA. Prior to this position he was with the World Bank and the International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington DC, USA.

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