Institutions and the Rate of Return on Cattle: Evidence from Bangladesh

Kazi Iqbal, Kazi Ali Toufique and Md Wahid Ferdous Ibon
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Kazi Iqbal: Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS), Dhaka, Bangladesh
Kazi Ali Toufique: Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Asian Development Review (ADR), 2022, vol. 39, issue 01, 281-313

Abstract: This study extends the recent debate on the rate of return on cattle rearing in India, triggered by Anagol, Etang, and Karlan (2017) and followed by others, to the Bangladeshi context and finds that the apparent paradox of widespread cattle rearing despite negative returns in India is absent in Bangladesh. We use a nationally representative two-year panel data for rural Bangladesh and find that the average and marginal returns on raising cows and bullocks are positive and high in both 2011 and 2015. We show that appreciation of the value of cattle is the major contributing factor to positive returns. The existence of cattle markets where cattle can be freely traded for slaughter, milk production, or for any other purpose—which is constrained to various degrees in India—is the key to high and positive returns in Bangladesh.

Keywords: Bangladesh; livestock; poverty; rural development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 L25 O12 Q12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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