| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w9117 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 9117 |
| When Economic Reform Goes Wrong: Cashews in Mozambique | |
| Margaret McMillan; Dani Rodrik; Karen Horn Welch | |
| 发表日期 | 2002-08-23 |
| 出版年 | 2002 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Mozambique liberalized its cashew sector in the early 1990s in response to pressure from the World Bank. Opponents of the reform have argued that the policy did little to benefit poor cashew farmers while bankrupting factories in urban areas. Using a welfare-theoretic framework, we analyze the available evidence and provide an accounting of the distributional and efficiency consequences of the reform. We estimate that the direct benefits from reducing restrictions on raw cashew exports were of the order $6.6 million annually, or about 0.14% of Mozambique GDP. However, these benefits were largely offset by the costs of unemployment in the urban areas. The net gain to farmers was probably no greater than $5.3 million, or $5.30 per year for the average cashew-growing household. Inadequate attention to economic structure and to political economy seems to account for these disappointing outcomes. |
| 主题 | Development and Growth ; Development ; Other |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w9117 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/566728 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Margaret McMillan,Dani Rodrik,Karen Horn Welch. When Economic Reform Goes Wrong: Cashews in Mozambique. 2002. |
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