Estimating the Effects of Aggregate Agricultural Growth on the Distribution of Expenditures

By Ethan Ligon, E. Sadoulet. 2007

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Over the last several decades, the World Bank has accumulated a large number of datasets from a large number of countries which are based on household-level surveys, statistically representative of the populations of those countries, and which include data on non-durable expenditures. These data on expenditures can be used to measure economic welfare -- indeed, this kind of measurement is a chief raison d'etre of this collection of survey data. Though the micro-data from these surveys are not generally available, the Bank provides data on aggregate expenditures by decile for many of these countries. Further, for many countries data from more than one year is available, so that it's possible to construct an unbalanced panel of data on the level and distribution of expenditures for a number of countries over the last several decades. We also have data on country-level measures of agricultural income, as well as other aggregate income. We answer the question of how do changes in the sectoral composition of income affect the distribution of expenditures across households within a country.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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The Future of Food and Farming: Challenges and Choices for Global Sustainability (2011, background): “296 Ligon and Sadoulet (2007) 297 SR27 (Annex E refers) 298 Christiaensen et al. (2010) Challenge C: Ending hunger 119 donor interest in food and agriculture.”
Not Your Average Job: Measuring Farm Labor in Tanzania (2016, unknown): “Despite the importance of the agricultural sector in reducing poverty and food insecurity (Chen and Ravallion 2007; Irz et al. 2001; Ligon and Sadoulet 2007), serious weaknesses in agricultural statistics persist.2 In this study, we examine one aspect, measures of family farm labor.”
Dial “A” for Agriculture: A Review of Information and Communication Technologies for Agricultural Extension in Developing Countries - Working Paper 269 (2011, unknown): “Cross-country and country-specific econometric evidence have indicated that GDP growth generated in agriculture can be particularly effective in increasing expenditures and incomes of the poor (Ligon and Sadoulet 2007, Bravo-Ortega and Lederman 2005, Ravallion and Chen 2007).”
Do decentralized innovation systems promote agricultural technology adoption? Experimental evidence from Africa (2014, background): “Instead, we pull together data across all program sites in West, Central and Southern Africa.”
The 2008 Food Price Crisis: Rethinking Food Security Policies (2009, background): “…from the World Bank’s 2008 World Development Report (WDR), “Agriculture for Development”, show that for the poorest people, agricultural growth has been about four times more effective in raising the incomes of extremely poor people than GDP growth outside the sector (Ligon and Sadoulet , 2007).”
Agriculture for Development: Toward a New Paradigm (2009, background): “are poor, which is unlikely because migrants are often the more educated and entrepreneurial. deciles on average by 3.7 percent, far more than the 0.9 percent induced by one percent GDP growth originating in the rest of the economy (Ligon and Sadoulet, 2007).”
The (Evolving) Role of Agriculture in Poverty Reduction: An Empirical Perspective (2011, methodology): “This is consistent with the findings of Ligon and Sadoulet (2007). In resource poor low-income countries (excluding SSA) agricultural growth was found to be more than five times as poverty reducing than growth outside agriculture.”
What Drives the Global Land Rush? (2011, unknown): “The exceptionally large poverty elasticity of growth in smallholder agriculture (Ligon and Sadoulet 2011, Loayza and Raddatz 2010), as demonstrated in recent rapid poverty reduction in Asian economies such as China, and the fact that the majority of the poor still live in rural areas have led many…”