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

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dc.creatorBalat, Jorge
dc.creatorBrambilla, Irene
dc.creatorPorto, Guido
dc.date2012-03-30T07:30:25Z
dc.date2012-03-30T07:30:25Z
dc.date2009
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-01T01:30:06Z
dc.descriptionThis 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.
dc.identifierJournal of International Economics
dc.identifier00221996
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/4926
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/418669
dc.languageEN
dc.relationhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo
dc.rightsWorld Bank
dc.subjectCountry and Industry Studies of Trade F140
dc.subjectMeasurement and Analysis of Poverty I320
dc.subjectEconomic Development: Agriculture
dc.subjectNatural Resources
dc.subjectEnergy
dc.subjectEnvironment
dc.subjectOther Primary Products O130
dc.subjectEconomic Development: Human Resources
dc.subjectHuman Development
dc.subjectIncome Distribution
dc.subjectMigration O150
dc.subjectInternational Linkages to Development
dc.subjectRole of International Organizations O190
dc.subjectAgricultural Markets and Marketing
dc.subjectCooperatives
dc.subjectAgribusiness Q130
dc.subjectAgriculture in International Trade Q170
dc.titleRealizing the Gains from Trade: Export Crops, Marketing Costs, and Poverty
dc.titleJournal of International Economics
dc.typeJournal Article
dc.typeArticle de journal
dc.typeArtículo de revista

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