This presentation took place in University of California Davis, United States describing subsidies and basic savings can be negative complements because of behavioral poverty traps in Mozambique.
This paper focuses on multiple financial market failures – emphasising its heretofore underappreciated testable implications, including specific behaviours that are rational only in the presence of a poverty trap.
Relying on a randomized rollout strategy, this paper reports the results of a multi-year impact evaluation that spanned the 5-year life of the program.
In this paper we use panel data on horticultural growers in Nicaragua to address the determinants of adoption into the supermarket channel, the determinants of “duration” as supermarket suppliers, and the effect of time to adoption and duration on farm capital and farm technology choice.
We explore whether farm land and non-land assets determine the participation of tomato growers in modern markets in Nicaragua, and how farmers’ duration as supermarket suppliers affects their farm capital accumulation and technology.
Though widely heralded, this effort to create rents in an otherwise competitive market is unlikely to succeed. By analyzing two ways in which the mechanism is undermined by arbitrage: over-certification and quality-invariant pricing.