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| Minten, Bart. |
| Global retail chains are becoming increasingly dominant in the global food trade and their rise leads to dramatic impacts on agricultural supply chains and on small producers. However, the prospects and impacts of a food retail revolution in poor countries are not yet well understood. Here, we examine this question in Madagascar, a poor but stable country where global retailers have been present for over a decade. Our survey and analysis finds that while global retail chains sell better quality food, their prices are 40 to 90% higher, ceteris paribus, than those seen in traditional retail markets. In poor settings, characterized by high food price elasticities, a lack of willingness to pay for quality, and small retail margins, supermarkets appear to set... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Food retail; Supermarkets; Food quality; Africa; Madagascar; Agribusiness. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/42394 |
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| Zeller, Manfred. |
| Group lending has received much attention in recent years because of its perceived potential in providing financial services to poor households that lack traditional collateral. The analysis in this paper focuses on the effects of program design, community and group characteristics on the repayment performance of groups, using a data set on groups from six different lending programs in Madagascar. The results show that socially cohesive groups pool risks by diversifying the members’ asset portfolio so that their repayment performance is improved even in communities with high-risk exposure. |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Community Participation; Madagascar; Credit; Financial Economics. |
| Ano: 1996 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/97299 |
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| Stifel, David. |
| This paper examines the relationship between rural non-farm employment and household welfare using nationally representative data from Madagascar. It focuses on labor outcomes in the context of household livelihood strategies that include farm and non-farm income earning opportunities. It identifies distinct household livelihood strategies that can be ordered in welfare terms, and estimates multinomial logit models to assess the extent of the barriers to choosing dominant strategies. It finds that high-return non-farm activities provide an important pathway out of poverty, but that barriers such as lack of (a) education, (b) formal credit and (c) access to telecommunications restrict participation in such activities. Individual employment choice models and... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Non-farm; Livelihood strategy; Diversification; Labor; Welfare; Madagascar; Community/Rural/Urban Development. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/93887 |
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| Minten, Bart. |
| The effect of recent agricultural market reforms in many developing countries is often measured through tests for market integration by analyzing co-variation of food prices. However, market integration studies often fail to link the discovery of the lack of integration to causal factors. This analysis documents and relates price variation to structural determinants in the case of Madagascar. The spatial variability between communities is linked to the distance to a paved road, the quality of the road, access to soft infrastructure, and the level of competition between traders. Differences in seasonal variation are mainly related to the differential opportunity costs of capital in rice villages and to hard infrastructure in non-rice villages. Communities... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Markets; Prices; Price regulation; Madagascar; Economic Infrastructure; International Development. |
| Ano: 1999 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/100154 |
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