Calmette, Marie-Françoise and Kilkenny, Maureen
(2012)
Rural Roads versus African Famines.
Annals of Regional Science, vol. 49 (n° 2).
pp. 373-396.
Abstract
This paper formalizes and demonstrates how transport infrastructure between rural areas helps Third World countries deal with crop failures. In developed economies where transport costs are negligible, a crop failure in one area enhances market opportunities for producers in other growing regions. In developing countries where transport costs can be prohibitive, a crop failure in one area can have the reverse effects on other growing regions—undermining market opportunities—especially where crops must be transported through a central market to which food aid is delivered. We analyze the impacts of crop failures and food aid in a Walrasian general equilibrium model of a small, open, three-region economy, stylized to mimic African countries with prohibitively high costs of transport between rural regions.
Item Type: | Article |
---|---|
Language: | English |
Date: | October 2012 |
Refereed: | Yes |
Place of Publication: | Berlin |
Subjects: | B- ECONOMIE ET FINANCE |
Divisions: | TSE-R (Toulouse) |
Site: | UT1 |
Date Deposited: | 09 Jul 2014 17:21 |
Last Modified: | 27 May 2024 07:55 |
OAI Identifier: | oai:tse-fr.eu:25121 |
URI: | https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/15160 |