Market participation and pastoral welfare in drought-prone areas: A dose-response analysis

The low market participation of pastoral livestock producers is a challenge to the development of a climate-resilient economy in drought-prone areas. Without deliberate and well-designed efforts to transform livestock production into a thriving profit-oriented commercial business, the development of...

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Autores principales: Yitayew, Asresu, Kassie, Girma, Yigezu, Yigezu
Formato: Journal Article
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Elsevier 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/138729
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description The low market participation of pastoral livestock producers is a challenge to the development of a climate-resilient economy in drought-prone areas. Without deliberate and well-designed efforts to transform livestock production into a thriving profit-oriented commercial business, the development of pastoral societies will remain far-fetched. By applying bivariate selection model and dose-response function to a case study of 357 pastoral households in Ethiopia, this study examines pastoralists’ participation in goat markets and the impact of participation on per capita income, poverty headcount, and poverty gap. Our results show that the propensity and intensity of participation of pastoralists in goat marketing were influenced by flock size, transaction costs (TC), and access to veterinary services. An important finding in this study is that pastoralists are willing to pay for marketing services up to 97 % of the total variable TC, indicating the financial feasibility of public investment in the development of market infrastructure through cost recovery schemes. The results also reveal that participation in goat marketing has a positive impact on per capita income, poverty headcount, and poverty gap. These findings shed some light on more practical strategies for poverty reduction among pastoralists
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spelling CGSpace1387292026-01-15T02:08:23Z Market participation and pastoral welfare in drought-prone areas: A dose-response analysis Yitayew, Asresu Kassie, Girma Yigezu, Yigezu poverty pastoralists dose-response function endogenous market participation two-stage bivariate model The low market participation of pastoral livestock producers is a challenge to the development of a climate-resilient economy in drought-prone areas. Without deliberate and well-designed efforts to transform livestock production into a thriving profit-oriented commercial business, the development of pastoral societies will remain far-fetched. By applying bivariate selection model and dose-response function to a case study of 357 pastoral households in Ethiopia, this study examines pastoralists’ participation in goat markets and the impact of participation on per capita income, poverty headcount, and poverty gap. Our results show that the propensity and intensity of participation of pastoralists in goat marketing were influenced by flock size, transaction costs (TC), and access to veterinary services. An important finding in this study is that pastoralists are willing to pay for marketing services up to 97 % of the total variable TC, indicating the financial feasibility of public investment in the development of market infrastructure through cost recovery schemes. The results also reveal that participation in goat marketing has a positive impact on per capita income, poverty headcount, and poverty gap. These findings shed some light on more practical strategies for poverty reduction among pastoralists 2023-12-01 2024-01-31T15:54:07Z 2024-01-31T15:54:07Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/138729 en Open Access application/pdf Elsevier Asresu Yitayew, Girma Kassie, Yigezu Yigezu. (1/12/2023). Market participation and pastoral welfare in drought-prone areas: A dose-response analysis. Economic Analysis and Policy, 80, pp. 1415-1429.
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pastoralists
dose-response function
endogenous market participation
two-stage bivariate model
Yitayew, Asresu
Kassie, Girma
Yigezu, Yigezu
Market participation and pastoral welfare in drought-prone areas: A dose-response analysis
title Market participation and pastoral welfare in drought-prone areas: A dose-response analysis
title_full Market participation and pastoral welfare in drought-prone areas: A dose-response analysis
title_fullStr Market participation and pastoral welfare in drought-prone areas: A dose-response analysis
title_full_unstemmed Market participation and pastoral welfare in drought-prone areas: A dose-response analysis
title_short Market participation and pastoral welfare in drought-prone areas: A dose-response analysis
title_sort market participation and pastoral welfare in drought prone areas a dose response analysis
topic poverty
pastoralists
dose-response function
endogenous market participation
two-stage bivariate model
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/138729
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