Macroeconomic impacts of female labour productivity shock in agriculture: evidence from a CGE model applied to a Sub-Saharan African country

Patrice Rélouendé Zidouemba

Applied Economics Letters, 2020, vol. 27, issue 12, 1016-1021

Abstract: The agricultural sector is generally recognized as the engine of economic growth, poverty reduction and food security in countries with a high share of poor people employed in that sector. However, in most of Sub-Saharan African countries, the sector underperforms partly because women, who represent a crucial resource in the rural economy as farmers, face more severe constraints than men in accessing productive resources. In this paper, we use a gendered CGE model for Burkina Faso to simulate a greater access of women to productive resources. The results show that real GDP increases by 2.31%, and household real income and consumption improve significantly. We also found that the same productivity shock applied to the male labour displays positive but lower impacts. These results underline the gains that can be achieved at the macroeconomic, sectoral and household levels through better access of women to productive resources in the agricultural sector.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2019.1659482

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