Papers by Mylene Kherallah
The long-term reduction of hunger and poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa remains one of the great chal... more The long-term reduction of hunger and poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa remains one of the great challenges for the international development community. Eliminating hunger and promoting widespread growth in the region inevitably involves agriculture, given its central role in the region's economies. Over the past 20 years, most African governments have carried out reforms to deregulate agricultural markets and reduce the role of state enterprises. How much has the state actually withdrawn from agricultural markets? Have well-functioning private markets emerged? How successful were these reforms in boosting agricultural production, economic growth, and the incomes of the rural poor? What lessons can we learn from the reform process? The authors of this book address these questions through an analysis based on an extensive review of experiences with reform, focusing on three major agricultural markets: fertilizer, food crops, and export crops. They examine the historical rationales fo...
This brief reviews the extensive evidence on agricultural market reforms in Sub-Saharan Africa an... more This brief reviews the extensive evidence on agricultural market reforms in Sub-Saharan Africa and summarizes the impact reforms have had on market performance, agricultural production, use of modern inputs, and poverty. It offers eight recommendations for completing the reform process and developing a new agenda for agricultural markets in Sub-Saharan Africa."Non-PRIFPRI
This paper summarizes the potential contributions of the new institutional economics to agricultu... more This paper summarizes the potential contributions of the new institutional economics to agricultural policy research, with particular emphasis on developing countries. The paper provides an overview of the new institutional economics and its several branches of thought. It then describes the future challenges facing world agriculture and shows the potential applications of new institutional and transaction costs economics to agricultural
The long-term reduction of hunger and poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa remains one of the great chal... more The long-term reduction of hunger and poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa remains one of the great challenges for the international development community. Eliminating hunger and promoting widespread growth in the region inevitably involves agriculture, given its central role in the region's economies. Over the past 20 years, most African governments have carried out reforms to deregulate agricultural markets and reduce the role of state enterprises. How much has the state actually withdrawn from agricultural markets? Have well-functioning private markets emerged? How successful were these reforms in boosting agricultural production, economic growth, and the incomes of the rural poor? What lessons can we learn from the reform process? The authors of this book address these questions through an analysis based on an extensive review of experiences with reform, focusing on three major agricultural markets: fertilizer, food crops, and export crops. They examine the historical rationales fo...
This paper summarizes the potential contributions of the new institutional economics to agricultu... more This paper summarizes the potential contributions of the new institutional economics to agricultural policy research, with particular emphasis on developing countries. The paper provides an overview of the new institutional economics and its several branches of thought. It then describes the future challenges facing world agriculture and shows the potential applications of new institutional and transaction costs economics to agricultural policy analysis in this new world environment. The paper concludes by providing specific examples of interest in the area of agricultural market research in developing countries that can be analyzed using the new institutional economics.
Final Report. …, 2001
... by Mylène Kherallah Nicholas Minot Richard Kachule Bio Goura Soule Philippe Berry Submitted t... more ... by Mylène Kherallah Nicholas Minot Richard Kachule Bio Goura Soule Philippe Berry Submitted to the Deutsche Gesellschaft Für Technische Zussammenarbeit (GTZ) February 2001 ... accounts for 44 percent of the value of exports. Other agricultural exports, including oil palm, ...
We present an empirical analysis of factors determining trade wars and agreements under U.S. trad... more We present an empirical analysis of factors determining trade wars and agreements under U.S. trade law Section 301. A system of two probit equations is estimated using historical data on Section 301 cases to determine which economic and political factors increase the likelihood of trade frictions. The likelihood of trade war increases when the United States's export share in the world market declines, when the United States is less dependent on the market of the targeted country, when foreign policy makers are in an election year, and when negotiations relate to highly protected and unionized industries in the targeted country. Key words: probit estimation, Section 301, trade bargaining, U.S. trade policy. In the last twenty years, U.S. trade policy has evolved to encompass aggressive attempts to expand export markets and decrease foreign trade barriers on U.S. goods and services. The Clinton administration characterizes its trade strategy as a "results-oriented " app...
This paper summarizes the potential contributions of the new institutional economics to agricultu... more This paper summarizes the potential contributions of the new institutional economics to agricultural policy research, with particular emphasis on developing countries. The paper provides an overview of the new institutional economics and its several branches of thought. It then describes the future challenges facing world agriculture and shows the potential applications of new institutional and transaction costs economics to agricultural
The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1994
... "In our hunger for a pattern behind things we enter-tain fantasies of conspiracies."... more ... "In our hunger for a pattern behind things we enter-tain fantasies of conspiracies." John Updike ... In developing economies the higher cost of collective action by farmers together with the pressure from urban consumers and the manufacturing sector for cheap food result in ...
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1998
... USSH, FCTL, FCTH, PCONT, ADMIN, GATT, OECDGDP, USHRI) and (l - F2 ) = <I>(EMPFC, FCORG,... more ... USSH, FCTL, FCTH, PCONT, ADMIN, GATT, OECDGDP, USHRI) and (l - F2 ) = <I>(EMPFC, FCORG, AGIND, MANIND, COMP2, ELECT2, SOCCOM, PR, EXPSF, USSL, USSH, FCTL, FCTH, PCONT, ADMIN, GATT, OECDGDP) ...
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