Optimal allocation of agriculture’s public budget can improve transformation and healthy diets access in Ethiopia

Agriculture is under transformation in sub-Saharan Africa where millions still do not have access to a healthy diet. Policy makers in this region should find ways to accelerate agricultural transformation while increasing access to healthy diets. Optimizing agriculture’s public budget stands out as...

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Autores principales: Sánchez, Marco V., Cicowiez, Martín
Formato: Articulo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2023
Materias:
Ciencias Económicas
Computable general equilibrium
Optimal policy design
Economic development
Agricultural transformation
Nutrition
Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/159868
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spelling I19-R120-10915-1598682023-11-07T20:07:07Z http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/159868 Optimal allocation of agriculture’s public budget can improve transformation and healthy diets access in Ethiopia Sánchez, Marco V. Cicowiez, Martín 2023 2023-11-07T15:02:39Z en Ciencias Económicas Computable general equilibrium Optimal policy design Economic development Agricultural transformation Nutrition Agriculture is under transformation in sub-Saharan Africa where millions still do not have access to a healthy diet. Policy makers in this region should find ways to accelerate agricultural transformation while increasing access to healthy diets. Optimizing agriculture’s public budget stands out as a handy option. By combining a dynamic computable general equilibrium model and a multi-criteria decision-making technique, and applying them in the context of Ethiopia, this paper points to an important trade-off that policy makers should keep in mind. An optimal allocation of agriculture’s public budget aimed at increasing agri-food output, creating off- farm jobs and reducing rural poverty, which are agricultural transformation objectives, will help to reduce the cost of a healthy diet, allowing around 2 million more Ethiopians to afford it. This number could even be higher should policy makers allocate the budget optimally aiming at only lowering the cost of a healthy diet, but at the cost of reducing household income and slowing down transformation. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas Articulo Articulo http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) application/pdf
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topic Ciencias Económicas
Computable general equilibrium
Optimal policy design
Economic development
Agricultural transformation
Nutrition
spellingShingle Ciencias Económicas
Computable general equilibrium
Optimal policy design
Economic development
Agricultural transformation
Nutrition
Sánchez, Marco V.
Cicowiez, Martín
Optimal allocation of agriculture’s public budget can improve transformation and healthy diets access in Ethiopia
topic_facet Ciencias Económicas
Computable general equilibrium
Optimal policy design
Economic development
Agricultural transformation
Nutrition
description Agriculture is under transformation in sub-Saharan Africa where millions still do not have access to a healthy diet. Policy makers in this region should find ways to accelerate agricultural transformation while increasing access to healthy diets. Optimizing agriculture’s public budget stands out as a handy option. By combining a dynamic computable general equilibrium model and a multi-criteria decision-making technique, and applying them in the context of Ethiopia, this paper points to an important trade-off that policy makers should keep in mind. An optimal allocation of agriculture’s public budget aimed at increasing agri-food output, creating off- farm jobs and reducing rural poverty, which are agricultural transformation objectives, will help to reduce the cost of a healthy diet, allowing around 2 million more Ethiopians to afford it. This number could even be higher should policy makers allocate the budget optimally aiming at only lowering the cost of a healthy diet, but at the cost of reducing household income and slowing down transformation.
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title Optimal allocation of agriculture’s public budget can improve transformation and healthy diets access in Ethiopia
title_short Optimal allocation of agriculture’s public budget can improve transformation and healthy diets access in Ethiopia
title_full Optimal allocation of agriculture’s public budget can improve transformation and healthy diets access in Ethiopia
title_fullStr Optimal allocation of agriculture’s public budget can improve transformation and healthy diets access in Ethiopia
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