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American Journal of Agricultural Economics | 1978

The Impact of Technical Change on Income Distribution: The Case of Rice in Colombia

Grant M. Scobie; T Rafael Posada

A national rice research program adapted and developed modern rice varieties for irrigated culture. Their rapid and widespread adoption led to substantial increases in production, and a concomitant fall in the price of rice. This paper examines the incidence of both the gross benefits and the costs of the research program, by income level. As rice is a principal foodstuff, the net benefits, both absolute and relative, accrued disproportionately to the poorest households.


Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics | 1987

A Differentiated Goods Model of the Effects of European Policies in International Poultry Markets

Julian M. Alston; Grant M. Scobie

The Common Agricultural Policy increases European poultry production costs, prohibits imports, increases domestic prices, and subsidizes exports. This policy has displaced some U.S. exports. However, the net impact in the U.S. has been quite modest, even assuming poultry is homogeneous, independent of source country. Costs to U.S. producers are almost entirely offset by gains to U.S. consumers. Effects in the U.S. are even smaller when imperfect substitutability between poultry from different countries is accounted for. A retaliatory U.S. export subsidy would have more dramatic effects in U.S. markets.


American Journal of Agricultural Economics | 1981

Market Intervention Policies for Increasing the Consumption of Nutrients by Low Income Households

Richard K. Perrin; Grant M. Scobie

This study employs a market equilibrium displacement approach to examine the nutrient consumption effects of market intervention programs such as food subsidies, income transfers, and agricultural input subsidies. The results permit comparison of the direct treasury costs of achieving marginal increases in nutrient intake with alternative programs. When applied to a case study of the food markets and population of Cali, Colombia, it was found that a marginal increase in caloric intake among the poor could be achieved at lowest cost with a consumer subsidy of certain cereals, although black market activity might raise this cost to that of an income subsidy.


American Journal of Agricultural Economics | 1987

The Component Pricing of Milk Revisited

Normand R. St-Pierre; Grant M. Scobie

Various studies have addressed the impact of component pricing on milk marketing. All required an estimate of the implicit prices of components under an existing scheme. In this paper, we show why results differed between studies, and we present evidence that they drew inappropriate conclusions. A reformulation based on the relationship between fat and solids-not-fat percentages in milk leads to the conclusion that butterfat pricing schemes for milk may have underpriced fat relative to solids-not-fat rather than overpriced butterfat in U.S. produced milk.


American Journal of Agricultural Economics | 1985

The Contribution of International Agricultural Research to World Agriculture

Jock R. Anderson; Robert W. Herdt; Grant M. Scobie

The system of international agricultural research centers has played a facilitating role in promoting a diversity of biological and institutional innovations in the Third World. These include germplasm collections and enhancements, new varieties of crops, changed agricultural and farming systems practices, and improved policies and institutional arrangements affecting agricultural sectors and their research infrastructures. As these centers work in collaboration with national research systems, perhaps the most important induced effect has been in enhancing the human capital of people working in these systems in the developing countries.


Journal of Econometrics | 1975

Estimation of the elasticity of substitution in the presence of errors of measurement

Grant M. Scobie; Paul R. Johnson

Abstract Under certain circumstances an estimate of the elasticity of substitution for competitive exports in international trade may be bracketed when prices are not directly measured. Often only value and quantity data are available. In this case regressing value ratios on quantity ratios and vice versa will bracket the estimate as the asymptotic biases will have opposite signs. If values are divided by quantities to generate a price series, and then regressions are run, both estimates will be biased towards zero and not provide the bounds sought.


American Journal of Agricultural Economics | 1983

Distribution of Research Gains in Multistage Production Systems: Comment

Julian M. Alston; Grant M. Scobie


Science and food. The CGIAR and its partners. | 1988

Science and Food: The CGIAR and Its Partners

Jock R. Anderson; Robert W. Herdt; Grant M. Scobie


Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics | 1979

The Price Elasticity Of Demand For Exports: A Comment On Throsby And Rutledge

Grant M. Scobie; Paul R. Johnson


Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics | 1977

THE IMPACT OF SUPERVISED CREDIT PROGRAMS ON TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE IN DEVELOPING AGRICULTURE: REPLY

Grant M. Scobie; David L. Franklin

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Paul R. Johnson

North Carolina State University

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John D. Mullen

University of California

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David L. Franklin

North Carolina State University

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Richard K. Perrin

University of Nebraska–Lincoln

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Jason Crean

Charles Sturt University

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