Content of review 1, reviewed on May 03, 2020
additional minor comments to the general review above
- p.3 l. 5 ff: "how much the structure of production is influenced by income distribution and consumption expenditure": generally, in IO analysis, the production structure is understood as the technical input coefficients. If I read your analysis correctly, you do not change this. Based on the data you describe, you do not even analyse the IOTs for different years, so that you cannot say anything about how income distribution and consumption expenditure change the structure of agricultural production. What you do analyse is how the interpretation of linkages of agriculture to the rest of the economic system changes with endogenizing households
- in the first 5 pages, you repeat saying 3 or 4 times that a SAM endoginizes households. please make it less repetetive
- p.7 around l 33: 1. Why is it important to assume that the structure of production hasn't changed in the last 20 year? 2. this is assumption is very unrealistic. how can you take it? 3. from the abstract and introduction I would have expected that you analyse the fact that the production structure changes. see above comment.
- p.8 l 1-6: Is it consistent with Zambia or not? Also, why do we care about consistency?
Summary: While I think this study is important, it needs to be better designed and explained before it can be considered for publication.
Source
© 2020 the Reviewer.
References
Irfan, A., Mohammad, M. A. 2020. Role of income distribution and consumption expenditure in agricultural output: case of Nigeria. International Journal of Social Economics.
