Local poverty reduction in Chile and Mexico: The role of food manufacturing growth

dc.creatorCazzuffi, Chiara
dc.creatorLopex, Mariana
dc.creatorSoloaga, Isidro
dc.date2017-04-01T20:07:29Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-09T09:48:15Z
dc.descriptionThis paper analyzes the relationship between local poverty and food manufacturing growth in Chile and Mexico using propensity score matching, differences in differences and spatial econometrics methods. We focus on food manufacturing as a sector with a number of characteristics that make it potentially pro-poor, and whose incentives for spatial distribution may either strengthen or dampen its poverty reduction potential. The overall results indicate that i) geographically, food manufacturing locates in relatively poor areas, but not in the poorest; ii) food manufacturing tends to locate in municipalities with more availability of labor and raw materials and with better infrastructure; iii) controlling for other factors, food manufacturing growth contributes to local poverty reduction both in terms of magnitude and speed.
dc.identifierdoi:10.22004/ag.econ.211449
dc.identifierhttps://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/211449/files/Cazzuffi-Local%20poverty%20reduction%20in%20Chile%20and%20Mexico-514.pdf
dc.identifierhttp://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/211449
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/612468
dc.languageeng
dc.publisher
dc.sourcehttp://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/211449
dc.titleLocal poverty reduction in Chile and Mexico: The role of food manufacturing growth
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