Social Capital and Agricultural Trade

By Marcel Fafchamps, B. Minten. 2001

196 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Sociology and Political Science

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How researchers see this paper

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Marcel Fafchamps
2. E. Gabre-Madhin
3. B. Minten
4. W. Adger
5. Siwan Anderson
6. K. Deininger
7. M. Smale
8. J. Okidi

In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

1. Marcel Fafchamps
2. K. Deininger
3. E. Gabre-Madhin
4. Siwan Anderson
5. B. Minten
6. W. Adger
7. M. Smale
8. Songqing Jin

In Sociology and Political Science

1. E. Gabre-Madhin
2. Marcel Fafchamps
3. W. Adger
4. B. Minten
5. Siwan Anderson
6. H. Osbahr
7. K. Deininger
8. J. Okidi

Citations in the corpus

• Evaluating Successful Livelihood Adaptation to Climate Variability and Change in Southern Africa (2010, background): “…are developed for instrumental reasons of exchange or economic activity and those networks that exist to promote collective action or cooperation (Fafchamps and Minten 2001, Adger 2003); and (3) adaptive capacity, which is related to the existence of mechanisms for the evolution of novelty or…”
• Increasing Returns and Market Efficiency in Agricultural Trade (2005, methodology): “21This is a surprising result given that work on an earlier 1997 survey showed a strong returns to network capital (e.g. Fafchamps & Minten 2002, Fafchamps & Minten 2001).”
• Social Capital, Investments and External Financing (2015, unknown): “Fafchamps and Minten (2001) examine the role played by social capital in the performance of agricultural trade.”
• On the Empirics of Social Capital (2002, unknown): “Fafchamps and Lund (2003), Fafchamps and Minten (2001,2002), Grootaert (2000), Isham (2002) and Narayan and Pritchett (1999) all give primary focus to the role of memberships in various organization and trading networks as determinants of economic outcomes.”
• Caste as an Impediment to Trade (2011, background): “Using survey data of agricultural traders from three African countries, Fafchamps and Minten (2001) find that traders with more social contacts have higher output.”
• Gender, social capital and information exchange in rural Uganda (2008, background): “CAPRI WORKING PAPER NO. 59 OCTOBER 2006 7 Information and knowledge about new technologies and markets have been found to diffuse through social networks of friends, relatives and acquaintances (Barr 2002; Fafchamps and Minten 2001; Collier 1998; Conley and Udry 2001).”
• Growth and Poverty Reduction in Uganda, 1999-2000: Panel Data Evidence (2003, background): “One primarily affects the cost of entering into and conducting economic transactions of all kinds (Fafchamps and Minten, 2001).”