Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: This paper employs unconditional quantile regression to reveal how different parts of income distribution are affected by public policy programmes and marketing opportunities.The study uses unique data collected in the second half of 2019 through a survey organised by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Rural Development (MAFRD).The objective of the survey was to assess the impact of financial support programmes, provided by MAFRD and implemented by the Agency for Agricultural Development (ADA), on agents alongside the food chain.Concerning farming, in addition to the impact of financial support through direct payments and investment subsidies, the Ministry aimed to collect information on various other aspects of farm activity, e.g. the structure of farms, crops and livestock production, input expenditure, sales channels etc.The data referred to 2018.To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt comprehensively to analyse the farmers' panel dataset.The results show that while the lowest income farmers benefit more from investment subsidies, direct payments widen the gap between the low-income and high-income farmers.Where contracting arrangements are concerned, buyers' non-compliance is most damaging to the lower income farms.This raises the issue of low enforceability which allows the buyers to deviate from contractual terms ex-post.The paper is structured as follows.The next section provides a contextual background for the study, which is followed Philip KOSTOV A , Ekrem GJOKAJ B and Sophia DAVIDOVA C Marketing and subsidy effects on farm income distribution: evidence from Kosovo
DOI: 10.7896/j.3499
Language: English
Subfield: Safety Research
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
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