Realizing the Gains from Trade: Export Crops, Marketing Costs, and Poverty

This paper explores the role of export costs in the process of poverty reduction in rural Africa. We claim that the marketing costs that emerge when the commercialization of export crops requires intermediaries can lead to lower participation into export cropping and, thus, to higher poverty. We tes...

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Main Authors:	Balat, Jorge, Brambilla, Irene, Porto, Guido
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	EN
Published:	2012
Subjects:	Country and Industry Studies of Trade F140 Measurement and Analysis of Poverty I320 Economic Development: Agriculture Natural Resources Energy Environment Other Primary Products O130 Economic Development: Human Resources Human Development Income Distribution Migration O150 International Linkages to Development Role of International Organizations O190 Agricultural Markets and Marketing Cooperatives Agribusiness Q130 Agriculture in International Trade Q170
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spelling	okr-10986-49262021-04-23T14:02:20Z Realizing the Gains from Trade: Export Crops, Marketing Costs, and Poverty Balat, Jorge Brambilla, Irene Porto, Guido Country and Industry Studies of Trade F140 Measurement and Analysis of Poverty I320 Economic Development: Agriculture Natural Resources Energy Environment Other Primary Products O130 Economic Development: Human Resources Human Development Income Distribution Migration O150 International Linkages to Development Role of International Organizations O190 Agricultural Markets and Marketing Cooperatives Agribusiness Q130 Agriculture in International Trade Q170 This paper explores the role of export costs in the process of poverty reduction in rural Africa. We claim that the marketing costs that emerge when the commercialization of export crops requires intermediaries can lead to lower participation into export cropping and, thus, to higher poverty. We test the model using data from the Uganda National Household Survey. We show that: i) farmers living in villages with fewer outlets for sales of agricultural exports are likely to be poorer than farmers residing in market-endowed villages; ii) market availability leads to increased household participation in export cropping (coffee, tea, cotton, fruits); iii) households engaged in export cropping are less likely to be poor than subsistence-based households. We conclude that the availability of markets for agricultural export crops help realize the gains from trade. This result uncovers the role of complementary factors that provide market access and reduce marketing costs as key building blocks in the link between the gains from export opportunities and the poor. 2012-03-30T07:30:25Z 2012-03-30T07:30:25Z 2009 Journal Article Journal of International Economics 00221996 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4926 EN http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Journal Article Africa
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topic	Country and Industry Studies of Trade F140 Measurement and Analysis of Poverty I320 Economic Development: Agriculture Natural Resources Energy Environment Other Primary Products O130 Economic Development: Human Resources Human Development Income Distribution Migration O150 International Linkages to Development Role of International Organizations O190 Agricultural Markets and Marketing Cooperatives Agribusiness Q130 Agriculture in International Trade Q170
spellingShingle	Country and Industry Studies of Trade F140 Measurement and Analysis of Poverty I320 Economic Development: Agriculture Natural Resources Energy Environment Other Primary Products O130 Economic Development: Human Resources Human Development Income Distribution Migration O150 International Linkages to Development Role of International Organizations O190 Agricultural Markets and Marketing Cooperatives Agribusiness Q130 Agriculture in International Trade Q170 Balat, Jorge Brambilla, Irene Porto, Guido Realizing the Gains from Trade: Export Crops, Marketing Costs, and Poverty
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description	This paper explores the role of export costs in the process of poverty reduction in rural Africa. We claim that the marketing costs that emerge when the commercialization of export crops requires intermediaries can lead to lower participation into export cropping and, thus, to higher poverty. We test the model using data from the Uganda National Household Survey. We show that: i) farmers living in villages with fewer outlets for sales of agricultural exports are likely to be poorer than farmers residing in market-endowed villages; ii) market availability leads to increased household participation in export cropping (coffee, tea, cotton, fruits); iii) households engaged in export cropping are less likely to be poor than subsistence-based households. We conclude that the availability of markets for agricultural export crops help realize the gains from trade. This result uncovers the role of complementary factors that provide market access and reduce marketing costs as key building blocks in the link between the gains from export opportunities and the poor.
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author	Balat, Jorge Brambilla, Irene Porto, Guido
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title	Realizing the Gains from Trade: Export Crops, Marketing Costs, and Poverty
title_short	Realizing the Gains from Trade: Export Crops, Marketing Costs, and Poverty
title_full	Realizing the Gains from Trade: Export Crops, Marketing Costs, and Poverty
title_fullStr	Realizing the Gains from Trade: Export Crops, Marketing Costs, and Poverty
title_full_unstemmed	Realizing the Gains from Trade: Export Crops, Marketing Costs, and Poverty
title_sort	realizing the gains from trade: export crops, marketing costs, and poverty
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Realizing the Gains from Trade: Export Crops, Marketing Costs, and Poverty

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