Research on Government Logistics Subsidies for Poverty Alleviation with Non-uniform Distribution of Consumers

Yanju Zhou and Yuan Che

Omega, 2021, vol. 104, issue C

Abstract: We develop a Hotelling model with an asymmetric triangular distribution of consumer density to analyze the influence of the agricultural product upstream logistics subsidy (PUS) and the cold chain logistics project subsidy (CPS) for poverty alleviation on the competitiveness of agricultural products between impoverished and less impoverished general regions. When the government subsidies are strong enough, farmers' profits in the impoverished region may exceed those in the general region, or even lead to a loss of income for farmers in the general region. The government needs to carry out different logistics subsidies according to the different consumer sensitivity to price and to the logistics services of different agricultural products. The results and insights from our study could help policymakers and farmers to devise and select appropriate logistics subsidies.

Keywords: Non-uniform distribution; Hotelling model; Poverty alleviation; Logistics subsidy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.omega.2021.102489

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