IMPACT OF ECONOMIC REFORM POL.ICIES ON ECONOMIC VARIABLES O!= FISH SECTO | ||||
Journal of Agricultural Economics and Social Sciences | ||||
Article 6, Volume 27, Issue 9, September 2002, Page 5921-5934 PDF (530.98 K) | ||||
Document Type: Original Article | ||||
DOI: 10.21608/jaess.2002.256824 | ||||
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Author | ||||
Nina nabil A. M. Basiouni | ||||
Agric.Economic Res. Instit, Agrlc. Res Center | ||||
Abstract | ||||
The Economic Reform Policies have been applied in Egyptian economy since 1986 .The main objective ot this study is to investigate the response of sector of fish to economic reform policies . TWO stage least squares method was used to estimate the potential effects of economic reform period 1980 -2000 . The indicator show that implementing economic reform policies have significant positive Impact on sector offish .the main result are: 1 -The most important factor which affect the domestic production of fish are numbers of fishing boats and change in technology if both are to increase by 10 % the domestic production of fish would increase 7.5 % ,6.6 % respectively 2 - The most important factors which affect the average retail prices of fish are national consumption and domestic production of fish if the national consumption increase by 10 % the average retail prices of fish would increase by 16.4 % but the increasing of domestic production by 10 % the average retail prices of fish would decrease 5 % respectively. 3 - The most important factor which affect the fish import are national consumption , fish Import prices and domestic production of fish increase by 10 % to the national consumption of fish the import would increase 15.2 % but increasing 10 % to the fish import prices and domestic production would decrease the fish import 2.6 % ,2.3 % respectively 4- The most important factors which affect the national the national consumption of fish are number of population ,individual income .average retail prices of fish and red meat increase by 10 % to the number of population and the individual income , the national consumption would increase 8.1 % ,6 % but increasing by 10 % to the average relail prices of fish ,poultry and red meat would decrease the national consumption 1.6 % ,1.4 % , 1.3 % respectively 5- It is anticipated that domestic production of fish will increase 2.8 % for the period 2002 • 2005 . The average retail prices for fish would anticipated increase 5.2 % for the period 2002 • 2005 . The fish import would be anticipated to increase 2.22 % for the period 2002 -2005 . The national consumption of fish would be anticipated to increase 3.42 % for the period 2002 - 2005 6- Accordingly the study recommends that more efforts should be directed toward increasing the domestic production of fish this is ought to be done through anticipated quantity | ||||
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