Agriculture, roads, and economic development in Uganda / Douglas Gollin, Richard Rogerson.

Author/creator Gollin, Douglas
Other author Rogerson, Richard Donald.
Other author National Bureau of Economic Research.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoCambridge, MA : National Bureau of Economic Research,
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SeriesNBER working paper series ; working paper 15863
Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ; working paper no. 15863. UNAUTHORIZED
Summary "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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