THE EFFECTIVENESS OF AGRICULTURAL POLICY REFORMS WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT PROGRAMME
THE EFFECTIVENESS OF AGRICULTURAL POLICY REFORMS WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT PROGRAMME
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1999-08
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PRINCE, FATAI ADEYEMI
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Abstract
The main thrust of this study is an empirical investigation
on the effectiveness of agricultural policy reforms within the
context of Structural Adjustment Programme in Nigeria between
1976 - 1996. To achieve this objective, the study uses first the
Supply Side function as a framework of analysis. Second, the
Chow Test technique was then used to examine the statistical
significance of structural shift.
The findings of this study reveal that policy reforms in the
agricultural sector did not improve the productivity so as to bring
about the transformation of the sector into a modern and a selfsufficient
one, though the Chow test result showed that S.A.P.
had produced a timid positive structural break of agricultural
output in the country.
This study then recommends amongst other things, that
mass education of people on agricultural cooperative be
embarked upon, and interest rates on loans for agricultural
purpose be reduced through proper exchange rate system
regulation. Above all, this study recounmends the urgent
reinforcement of interventions in the agricultural pricing policy
especially in connection to the removal of subsidies on inputs.
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A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE POST-GRADUATE
SCHOOL, FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES, AHMADU
BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA IN PARTIAL
FULFILlMENT FOR THE AWARD OF THE DEGREE OF
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN ECONOMICS
DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY
ZARIA, NIGERIA
AUGUST, 1999
Keywords
EFFECTIVENESS,, AGRICULTURAL POLICY,, CONTEXT,, STRUCTURAL,, ADJUSTMENT,, PROGRAMME: