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Rural household access to assets and markets: a cross-country comparison

Rural household access to assets and markets: a cross-country comparison

Zezza, Alberto, Winters, Paul, Carletto, Calogero, Covarrubias, Katia, Tasciotti, Luca ORCID: 0000-0003-2561-5530 and Quinones, Esteban (2011) Rural household access to assets and markets: a cross-country comparison. The European Journal of Development Research, 23 (4). pp. 569-597. ISSN 0957-8811 (Print), 1743-9728 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1057/ejdr.2011.15)

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Abstract

The sluggish supply response in most developing countries to the apparently favourable agricultural market situation of the past few years can be explained by the limited ability of price incentives to bring about an increase in production and marketed surplus in the presence of binding non-price constraints. This article characterises farm household heterogeneity in access to assets, markets and infrastructure drawing on household survey data from 15 developing countries. We relate this heterogeneity in access to household ability to engage successfully in agricultural output markets and find consistent supporting evidence for the hypothesis that this lack of access is significantly constraining their potential to engage successfully in agriculture.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: agriculture, markets, inputs, assets, subsistence farming, smallholders
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group: Faculty of Business
Faculty of Business > Department of International Business & Economics
Last Modified: 11 Feb 2020 15:20
URI: http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/26913

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