Evidence and implications of non-tradability of food staples in Tanzania 1983-98

• Main Authors: Delgado, Christopher, Minot, Nicholas, Tiongco, Marites M.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2005
• Subjects: Agriculture—Economic aspects—Tanzania; Food security—Tanzania; Agriculture and state—Tanzania; Economics; Growth and Development; Social and Behavioral Sciences
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/12436
• Institution: De La Salle University

Economic reform programmes assume that major goods are tradable, such that depreciation of the real exchange rate raises the value of output compared to factor costs in domestic currency. In Tanzania, major food staples that account for most real income are non-tradables in at least one-quarter of t...