A second look at the pesticides initiative program: evidence from Senegal

Melise Jaud and Olivier Cadot

No 5635, Policy Research Working Paper Series from The World Bank

Abstract: This paper investigates whether the Pesticides Initiative Program has significantly affected the export performance of Senegal'shorticulture industry. The authors apply two main microeconometric techniques, difference-in-differences and matching difference-in-differences, to identify the effect of the Pesticides Initiative Program on exports of fresh fruits and vegetables. They use a unique firm-level dataset containing data on sales, employment, and exports by product and destination markets, as well as firm enrolment year, over 2000-2008. The results suggest that wile the program had no significant effect on exports pooled over all products and destinations, it had a positive effect when considering fresh fruits and vegetables exports to the European Union.

Keywords: E-Business; Economic Theory&Research; Markets and Market Access; Microfinance; Free Trade (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-04-01
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