Marketing Margins and Agricultural Technology in Mozambique
By C. Arndt, H. T. Jensen, Sherman Robinson, F. Tarp. 2000
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Improvements in agricultural productivity and reductions in marketing costs in Mozambique are analysed using a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model. The model incorporates detailed marketing margins and separates household demand for marketed and home-produced goods. Individual simulations of improved agricultural technology and lower marketing margins yield welfare gains across the economy. In addition, a combined scenario reveals significant synergy effects, as gains exceed the sum of gains from the individual scenarios. Relative welfare improvements are higher for poor rural households, while factor returns increase in roughly equal proportions, an attractive feature when assessing the political feasibility of policy initiatives.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
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- Predicting the poverty impacts of trade reform (2004, background): “Recent work by Arndt et al. (2000) in Mozambique underscores the empirical significance of marketing margins in low-income countries. The authors report producer-consumer margins as high as 300% (cassava). The biggest margins reported in their study appear to be for food products, which tend to domi”