Equity and sustainability assessment of agricultural subsidies: who benefits, how progressive the support is, and what a budget-neutral reallocation could achieve for productivity, equity and the environment.
| Function | Purpose |
|---|---|
benefit_incidence() |
Benefit shares, parity, coverage by group or quantile |
progressivity_index() |
Concentration, Kakwani, Reynolds-Smolensky, bootstrap CIs |
subsidy_equity() |
Multi-dimensional equity scorecard with Theil decomposition |
distributional_effects() |
Gini and FGT poverty with and without support |
budget_reallocation() |
Budget-neutral rules incl. welfare-optimal allocation |
tradeoff_frontier() |
Productivity-equity-sustainability frontier |
The farm_subsidy example data are simulated.