Solaymani, Saeed and Aghamohammadi, Ebrahim and Falahati, Ali and Sharafi, Saeed and Kari, Fatimah (2019) Food security and socio-economic aspects of agricultural input subsidies. Review of Social Economy, 77 (3). pp. 271-296. ISSN 0034-6764, DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/00346764.2019.1596298.
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This study is the first attempt at promoting agricultural input subsidy policies in a computable general equilibrium framework on two main dimensions of food security (i.e. food availability and access to food), poverty and income distribution in Malaysia for all ethnic groups. This study investigates the short-run impacts of two subsidy removal policy and one subsidy expansion policy using 2010 input–output table. Results show that both subsidy removal policies negatively influence agricultural sectors and economic growth of Malaysia while the expansion policy influence them positively. The removal policies also decrease food availability and access to food and, consequently, increase poverty at the national level and the poverty level of Malay household, while the expansion policy increases food availability and access to food and alleviate the poverty level of Malay household. The complete removal policy without paddy/rice subsidies increases rice production and raises food availability and access to food commodities (or food security) in the country resulting in a lesser increase in poverty compared to the complete removal policy. © 2019, © 2019 The Association for Social Economics.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Funders: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Input subsidy; poverty; food security; food availability; food access; paddy/rice subsidies |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Economics & Administration |
| Depositing User: | Ms. Juhaida Abd Rahim |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Jan 2020 01:53 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Jan 2020 01:53 |
| URI: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/23407 |
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