Agriculture, roads, and economic development in Uganda
By: Douglas Gollin, Richard Rogerson
Contributors: Rogerson, Richard Donald; National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 15863; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 15863.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "A large fraction of Uganda's population continues to earn a living from quasi-subsistence agriculture.  This paper uses a static general equilibrium model to explore the relationships between high transportation costs, low productivity, and the size of the quasi-subsistence sector.  We parameterize the model to replicate some key features of the Ugandan data, and we then perform a series of quantitative experiments.  Our results suggest that the population in quasi-subsistence agriculture is highly sensitive both to agricultural productivity levels and to transportation costs.  The model also suggests positive complementarities between improvements in agricultural productivity and transportation"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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