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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
agricultural and biological sciences
Income diversification, poverty traps and policy shocks in Côte d'Ivoire and Kenya
Food Policy, Volume 26, No. 4, Year 2001
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This paper presents evidence on the effects of two different sorts of policy shocks on observed income diversification patterns in rural Africa. In Côte d'Ivoire, households with poor endowments were less able to respond to attractive emerging on-farm and non-farm opportunities. Due to entry barriers to superior livelihood strategies, the benefits of exchange rate reform accrued disproportionately to households that were richer prior to devaluation. By contrast, food-for-work transfers to households in Kenya significantly reduced liquidity constraints, enabling project participants to pursue more lucrative livelihood strategies in non-farm activities and higher-return agricultural production patterns. Jointly, these two shocks underscore the importance of liquidity, market access and skill constraints to skilled non-farm income sources to dynamic poverty traps in rural Africa. © 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
Authors & Co-Authors
Barrett, Christopher B.
United States, Ithaca
Cornell University
Bezuneh, Mesfin
United States, Atlanta
Clark Atlanta University
Aboud, Abdillahi A.
Kenya, Njoro
Egerton University
Statistics
Citations: 379
Authors: 3
Affiliations: 3
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1016/S0306-9192(01)00017-3
ISSN:
03069192
Research Areas
Food Security
Health System And Policy
Study Locations
Ivory Coast
Kenya