Rural roads versus African famines

Marie-Françoise Calmette and Maureen Kilkenny

The Annals of Regional Science, 2012, vol. 49, issue 2, 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. Copyright Springer-Verlag 2012

Keywords: O18; R42; H54; C68 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1007/s00168-011-0455-3

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