Download or read book Rice Price Fluctuation and an Approach to Price Stabilization in Bangladesh written by Raisuddin Ahmed and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction; Price stabilization issues; Fluctuation in rice prices; Causes of luctuations in annual and seasonal prices; Intermarket links and regional prices; An approach to price stabilization.
Download or read book Rice price stabilization in Bangladesh Assessing the impact of public farm gate and consumer price stabilization policy instruments on the overall grain market and developing policy orientations with a greater role for the private sector written by Minot, Nicholas and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2021-09-01 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Price instability is a fact of life. In a market economy, domestic prices change in response to changes in supply, consumer preferences, policy, world prices, and other factors. Crop prices tend to be particularly volatile because harvests occur only once or a few times per year and because the size of the harvest varies due to weather, prices, and other factors. For internationally-traded commodities, volatility in world prices can be another source of instability in domestic prices.
Download or read book Assessing the impact of rice price stabilization policies in Bangladesh Results from a stochastic spatial equilibrium model written by Minot, Nicholas and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2024-05-13 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rice plays a central role in the diet in Bangladesh and as a source of income for farmers. Although Bangladesh has largely liberalized international trade in rice, it maintains a public food distribution system to stablize prices, distributing an average of 2 million tons of rice per year at a cost of almost US$ 800 million per year. This study explores whether alternative policies could achieve similar stabilization at a lower cost. It uses a stochastic spatial-equilibrium model of rice markets to simulate monthly prices in eight regions of the country. Stochastic shocks are used to simulate fluctuations in regional production, replicating historical patterns at the region-season level, as well as inter-regional correlation in production shocks. It also simulates fluctuation in world rice prices, mimicking the mean, variance, and serial correlation of historical wholesale prices of rice in Delhi. Public procurement and distribution follow historic averages by month and region. Private storage is represented by a simplified version of rational expectations models, in which net storage is a non-linear function of availability in the previous month. One set of simulations tests alternative levels of distribution, finding that cutting distribution to 1 million tons would have minimal effects on the level of rice price stability. Another set of simulations tested different import tariff levels, including the baseline rate of 25%1. We find that lower tariffs result in both lower rice prices and less price instability, as world rice prices tend to be more stable than local prices. Simulating a buffer stock with different price bands shows that a narrow band can achieve high price stability but at a high fiscal cost. A 20 T/kg (USD 0.26/kg) price band generates similar price stabilization at a lower cost compared to current policy. However, it is difficult to set the “right” purchase and sale price, and many simulations result in exhausting reserves or reaching warehouse capacity. An adaptive buffer stock, in which the price is adjusted as the stock runs too low or too high, solves some of these problems. In general, the study finds that current procurement and distribution patterns do not match well with the regional and monthly patterns of surplus and deficit, possibly reflecting multiple and conflicting goals of the public food distribution system.
Download or read book Foodgrain price stabilization in developing countries written by Nurul Islam and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 1996 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brief summary of the analytics of price stabilization; Some operational aspects of food price stabilization policies; Alternatives to price stabilization: crop insurance and futures markets; Price stabilization policy: rationale and objectives; Design and implementation of stabilization policy; Impact of stabilization policy on price variability over time and across countries; Some quantitative estimates of the benefits of stabilization; Rethinking price stabilization policy.
Download or read book The Changing Public Role in a Rice Economy Approaching Self sufficiency written by Francesco Goletti and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prospects for continuous growth in rice yields have been examined within the context of a simulation model where demand parameters for both rural and urban populations and for different income groups have been used. Coupled with available estimates of supply response parameters, the prospects for a rice surplus in year 2000 appear moderate. On average, only 157,000 metric tons of rice surplus would result if current prices were to prevail. If prices were allowed to adjust, only a negligible price decline would result. That is also the case in the more favorable scenario of high growt of rice yields. Domestic demand would be capable of absorbing the increased rice surplus without an appreciable decline in price. The analysis of the proposal to support rice prices through procurement of domestic production has led to the conclusion that even massive increase of domestic procurement would result in very small price increases while at the same time causing serious storage capacity and budgetary problems for the government.
Download or read book Volatile Rice Prices written by Kordula Pfeiffer and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject Economics - Macro-economics, general, Humboldt-University of Berlin (Department of Agricultural Economics), course: Open Economy Macroeconomics and International Agricultural Trade, language: English, abstract: This paper describes the impacts of rice price fluctuations and price shocks due to crises on domestic households in Indonesia. In the long term the country was able to reduce poverty and undernourishment, because of its steady and strong economic growth. A typical household spends nearly half of its total food intake on rice. Therefore, high rice prices make especially the poor vulnerable to price increases. In order to estimate how and to which extend rice price volatility affects demand, the daily calorie intake is focused with regard to a price increase of 10 % and 30 %. Based on the assumption that people are food insecure a total calorie intake of 2,100 calories/day/person is taken into account as poverty line. Usually households consume less rice if the price is on a higher level. In Indonesia richer households have a more price-elastic demand if rice prices increases than poor households. On the contrary, those who are net consumers or producers of rice as well as governmental supported poor households have a relatively price-inelastic demand for rice. This fact is different for households which differ in income level and location. This paper comes up with the conclusion that for rich urban households rice is a Giffen good and that they consume more of it when prices are high while the consumption of poorer rural households suffers. The same procedure applies for rural households.
Download or read book Rice Price Stabilisation in Indonesia written by Chris Jones and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Evaluating Rice Market Intervention Policies written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Out of the shadow of famine written by Ahmed, Raisuddin and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2000-04-21 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes how Bangladesh transformed its food markets and food policies to free the country from the constant threat of famine. Since 1990, the Bangladeshi government has dismantled its food rationing system, privatized grain distribution, eased restrictions on international trade, and reduced its own presence in grain markets. The foundation for these developments was laid in the preceding decades. Improvements in agricultural science in the 1970s roughly doubled farm yields, while in the 1980s liberalization of irrigation restrictions, the lifting of import barriers to irrigation technology, and the privatization of fertilizer distribution rapidly increased rice cultivation. These increases in production, coupled with improvements in infrastructure and a more slowly growing and increasingly urban population, have substantially changed the structure of food grain markets, leading to increased marketing volumes, lower prices, and significantly larger private grain stocks. The book sets the Bangladeshi case in the larger context of the South Asian subcontinent and other developing countries in Asia. The authors examine the shifting structure of supply and demand in the grain markets, the history of government intervention in those markets, and the more recent changes that altered the arguments for such intervention and led to policy changes. The case of Bangladesh also has more general relevance as a study of the outcomes of a market-oriented reform program.
Download or read book Developments in the Asian Rice Economy written by M. Sombilla and published by Int. Rice Res. Inst.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Irrigation Technology and Commercialization of Rice in The Gambia Effects on Income and Nutrition written by Joachim Von Braun and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 1989 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scope of the study and conceptual framework; The study area and its commercialization through agricultural programs; Production effects of commercialization and technological change in rice; Effects on marketed surplus, storage, and income; Food and nonfood consumption effects; Nutritional effects; Conclusions for programs and policy.
Download or read book Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction written by Rajib Shaw and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2010-12-12 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguably among the regions of the world most vulnerable to climate change, Asia has different mechanisms for Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) activities. This title provides 19 case studies, from 13 countries and regions in Asia, that highlight different aspects of CCA-DRR entry points.
Download or read book A I D Research and Development Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Survey of Agricultural Economics Literature written by Lee R. Martin and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 1080 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Agricultural Growth and Structural Changes in the Punjab Economy written by and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 1990 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growth of the Punjab economy since 1960/61; Method of compilation and sources of data; Structural features of the Punjab economy; Linkage analysis of the Punjab economy; Income and employment multipliers in the Punjab economy.
Download or read book Developmental Impact of Rural Infrastructure in Bangladesh written by Raisuddin Ahmed and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 1990 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research methodology and data; Infrastructure and agricultural production; Infrastructure, the rural labor market, and employment; Infrastructure, household income, and poverty; Linkage, between infrastructure and consumption; Infrastructure and savings-investment behavior; Infrastructure, rural markets, and social development; Implications for public policies.
Download or read book Markets Class and Social Change written by B. Crow and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-10-10 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the beginning of the twenty-first century an idealized view of markets informs government policy. Real differences in how markets interact with social change are obscured and public action on poverty is constrained. Markets, Class and Social Change uses a detailed study of the grain trade in Bangladesh to show how socially-constrained patterns of market involvement may systematically benefit the rich while disadvantaging the poor. More generally, the book suggests that markets are implicated in the making of society, its divisions, identities and directions.
