If Malawi’s fertilizer subsidy program aims to increase food security in the country, it should strive to target the most productive farmers. Subsidy levels can be set to self-target this group of farmers. This would maximize output achieved with subsidized fertilizer and eliminate the need for costly and error-prone top-down targeting.
Authors: Chimwemwe Banda, Joachim De Weerdt, Jan Duchoslav and Aubrey Jolex
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