The distributional impact of fertilizer subsidies on rural farmers in Ghana

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2013-05-04
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The Government of Ghana instituted a country-wide subsidy on 50kg bags of four types of fertilizer in an effort to mitigate the effect of rising food prices. This study sought to fill the knowledge gaps related to the implementation of the intervention with respect the distributional profile of subsidized fertilizer, the impact of subsidized fertilizer of the market, the impact of subsidized fertilizer on fertilizer use and the impact of subsidized fertilizer on farm productivity...
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A thesis submitted to the Department of Economics, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in partial fulfillment for the degree of Master of Philosophy (Economics), 2013.
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