This book investigates if and how agricultural market structures and farm constraints affect the development of dynamic food and cash crop sectors and whether these sectors can contribute to economic transformation and poverty reduction in Africa. The authors map the current cash and food crops...

How do tariffs impact gender inequality? Using harmonized household survey and tariff data from 54 low- and middle-income countries, this paper shows that protectionism has an anti-female bias. On average, tariffs repress the real incomes of female headed households by 0.6 percentage points...

How do tariffs impact gender inequality? Using harmonized household survey and tariff data from 54 low- and middle-income countries, this paper shows that protectionism has an anti-female bias. On average, tariffs repress the real incomes of female headed households by 0.6 percentage points...

Abstract -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- References -- Part I: The Welfare Impact of Agricultural Supply Chains, Market Structure and Farm Constraints -- Chapter 2: A Model of Agricultural Supply Chains, Market Structure and Farm Constraints -- 2.1 Cash Crop Exports...