Land redistribution and the South African economy

IF 1.9 4区经济学 Q2 AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS & POLICY

Agricultural Economics-Zemedelska Ekonomika Pub Date : 2020-01-27 DOI:10.17221/120/2019-agricecon

J. Mukarati, I. Mongale, G. Makombe

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Abstract

Land redistributive policies can be viewed as effective tools for reducing rural poverty mainly because agriculture continues to be a major source of rural livelihood and a contributor to rural economic growth. For the structural changes and economy-wide impacts, including behavioural changes of rural land distribution, to be assessed and captured through time, a South African Social Accounting Matrix can be used as a database to construct a dynamic computable general equilibrium simulation model to simulate the potential impact on household welfare in South Africa. This study seeks to assess how government redistributive policies may affect household welfare in shortand long-run, focusing on poverty and income distribution in South Africa by applying a dynamic computable general equilibrium microsimulation model. The results showed that rural land distribution increases poor household income through an increase in factor by an average of 0.828. However, for most macroeconomic variables, the impact is negative in the short-run with a gradual increase in the long-run. The results support the claim that rural land distribution coupled with agriculture investment and government support can be effective in improving household welfare.

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土地再分配和南非经济

土地再分配政策可被视为减少农村贫困的有效工具，主要是因为农业仍然是农村生计的主要来源和农村经济增长的贡献者。为了评估和捕捉结构变化和整个经济的影响，包括农村土地分配的行为变化，可以使用南非社会会计矩阵作为数据库，构建一个动态可计算的一般均衡模拟模型，以模拟对南非家庭福利的潜在影响。本研究旨在评估政府再分配政策在短期和长期如何影响家庭福利，重点关注南非的贫困和收入分配，采用动态可计算一般均衡微观模拟模型。结果表明，农村土地布局通过增加因子平均增加0.828增加贫困户收入。然而，对于大多数宏观经济变量来说，这种影响在短期内是负面的，在长期内逐渐增加。研究结果支持了农村土地分配与农业投资和政府支持相结合能够有效提高农户福利的观点。

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Agricultural Economics-Zemedelska Ekonomika Agricultural Economics & Policy-

CiteScore

4.30

自引率

4.50%

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审稿时长

30 weeks

期刊介绍： An international peer-reviewed journal published under the auspices of the Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences and financed by the Ministry of Agriculture of the Czech Republic. Published since 1954 (by 1999 under the title Zemědělská ekonomika).Thematic scope: original scientific papers dealing with agricultural subjects from the sphere of economics, management, informatics, ecology, social economy and sociology. Since 1993 the papers continually treat problems which were published in the journal Sociologie venkova a zemědělství until now. An extensive scope of subjects in fact covers the whole of agribusiness, that means economic relations of suppliers and producers of inputs for agriculture and food industry, problems from the aspects of social economy and rural sociology and finally the economics of the population nutrition. Papers are published in English.