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

IF 3.5 2区 经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS
Marco V. Sánchez , Martín Cicowiez
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Abstract

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.

农业公共预算的最佳分配可以改善埃塞俄比亚健康饮食的获取
撒哈拉以南非洲的农业正在转型,那里仍有数百万人无法获得健康的饮食。本区域的决策者应想方设法加快农业转型,同时增加获得健康饮食的机会。优化农业公共预算是一个方便的选择。通过结合动态可计算一般均衡模型和多标准决策技术,并将其应用于埃塞俄比亚的背景下,本文指出了政策制定者应该牢记的一个重要权衡。农业公共预算的最佳分配旨在增加农业粮食产出、创造非农就业机会和减少农村贫困,这些都是农业转型目标,这将有助于降低健康饮食的成本,使大约200多万埃塞俄比亚人能够负担得起。如果决策者在分配预算时只以降低健康饮食的成本为最佳目标,而以减少家庭收入和减缓转型为代价,这个数字甚至可能更高。
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Policy Modeling is published by Elsevier for the Society for Policy Modeling to provide a forum for analysis and debate concerning international policy issues. The journal addresses questions of critical import to the world community as a whole, and it focuses upon the economic, social, and political interdependencies between national and regional systems. This implies concern with international policies for the promotion of a better life for all human beings and, therefore, concentrates on improved methodological underpinnings for dealing with these problems.
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