The impact of agricultural extension and roads on poverty and consumption growth in fifteen Ethiopian villages

Stefan Dercon, Daniel Gilligan (d.gilligan@cgiar.org), John Hoddinott and Tassew Woldehan

No 840, IFPRI discussion papers from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Abstract: "This paper investigates whether public investments that led to improvements in road quality and increased access to agricultural extension services led to faster consumption growth and lower rates of poverty in rural Ethiopia. Estimating an instrumental variables model using Generalized Methods of Moments and controlling for household fixed effects, we find evidence of positive impacts with meaningful magnitudes. Receiving at least one extension visit reduces headcount poverty by 9.8 percentage points and increases consumption growth by 7.1 percent. Access to all-weather roads reduces poverty by 6.9 percentage points and increases consumption growth by 16.3 percent. These results are robust to changes in model specification and estimation methods." from authors' abstract

Keywords: Public investment; roads; agricultural extension; income growth; Poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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