A framework is developed to assist economic planners and research administrators in making choices about priorities in the allocation of agricultural research resources. A multi-regional international trade model using concepts of economic surplus is employed to derive ex ante measures of the relative economic benefits of alternative commodity and regional research portfolios and the distribution of these benefits among consumers, producers, importers and exporters...
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Davis et al. (1987) studied this question.