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Road Expansion and Agricultural Development in the Brazilian Cerrados
de Castro, Newton - 2015
The objective of this paper is to assess the impact of the expansion of road network on Brazilian agricultural production, particularly with regard to the Cerrado region. After a brief report on the evolution of the road transport system, the paper presents evidence of the contemporaneous growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014110695
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Agriculture productivity growth in Brazilian micro-regions
Carvalho, Alexandre Ywata de; Laureto, Camilo Rey; … - 2016
investigated. This work focuses on mapping the gain of agricultural productivity in Brazil in the years 1990-2012 by micro … assess the sector's productivity gain over time. However, the regional analysis of agricultural productivity still is not …-region. After an overview of the behavior of productivity in the major regions, will be studied the ten major crops relative to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012057490
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Isolation and Agricultural Productivity
Minten, Bart; Stifel, David C. - 2009
This article examines the mechanisms that transmit isolation into productivity. In particular, we study the effect of … isolation and transport infrastructure on welfare and agricultural productivity in the case of Madagascar. Madagascar is a good … we find the inverse relationship between agricultural productivity and isolation to be surprisingly strong. We isolate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014215363
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Smallholders, market failures, and agricultural production: evidence from India
Merfeld, Joshua D. - 2020
Market completeness has important implications for household behavior. I firmly reject complete markets for smallholders but am unable to do so for non-smallholders. This leads to important differences in production behavior: smallholders reallocate labor across activities less in response to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012290639
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Bridges
Zant, Wouter - 2017
We estimate to what extent bridges in Mozambique lead to transport cost reductions and attribute these reductions to key determinants, in particular road distance, road quality and crossing borders. For identification we exploit the introduction of a road bridge over the Zambezi river, in August...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011772898
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What Explains the Intensification and Diversification of Brazil's Agricultural Production and Exports from 1990 to 2012?
Bacha, Carlos José C. - 2014
diversification of the Brazilian agricultural sector in the period 1990 2012. Our hypothesis is that Brazil does not have a …, and taking advantage of Brazil's agricultural land availability and good climate for agriculture.We identify four main … noteworthy results of the study:(1) Brazil is no longer an agricultural country, despite the fact that in 2012 agriculture …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013050348
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Technological clusters in Brazilian agriculture : production and challenges
Vieira Filho, José Eustáquio Ribeiro - 2017
This study aims to analyze the evolution of Brazilian agricultural production from the 1960s to now. We will summarize some of the main findings from the historical view of Brazilian agriculture development. The arguments should rest here on how technical change and the national system of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012060354
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Logistic Costs and Brazilian Regional Development
de Castro, Newton - 2005
The objective of this paper is to discuss the role of logistics and transport policy in Brazilian regional development. The role of transport policy as an instrument for regional development is reviewed, focusing on the expansion of both rail network, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014068729
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Impact of mobile phones on staple food markets in Mozambique : improved arbitrage or increased rent extraction?
Zant, Wouter - 2017
I use the quasi experimental nature of the roll-out of the mobile phone network in Mozambique to estimate the impact of search costs on the dispersion of maize prices and transport costs. The introduction of mobile phone services from 1997 to 2009 explains a 4.5-11% percent reduction in price...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011602562
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Mobile phones and Mozambique traders : what is the size of reduced search costs and who benefits?
Zant, Wouter - 2019
We investigate to what extent the roll-out of the mobile phone network in Mozambique reduced transport costs and search costs, and thereby decreased spatial price dispersion and improved market efficiency. Estimations are based on data of transport costs of maize grain and maize market prices....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012030636