Agriculture Production and Transport Connectivity
Evidence from Mozambique
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20301596 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Atsushi Iimi (0000-0003-2383-8087, Transport Global Knowledge & Expertise Unit, The World Bank Group, Washington, DC, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 12 |
| Pages | 2483-2502 |
| Publication date | 2022-12-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Development Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0388 • E-ISSN: 1743-9140 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00220388.2022.2128774 |
| OpenAlex | W4304112230 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 25 |
Despite relative richness of the existing literature, it remains a challenge to consistently estimate the impacts of transport connectivity on agricultural production. The paper constructs pseudo-panel data with transport infrastructure defined at high resolution in two periods of time and examines spatially heterogeneous impacts of improved transport connectivity. The paper takes advantage of the unique circumstances in Mozambique where the Government invested intensively in road infrastructure during a relatively short period of time in the 2010s. Combining the highly disaggregated location-specific fixed effects with the instrumental variable method, the paper controls for the endogeneity to show that the improved road connectivity increased agricultural production significantly. Rural connectivity and domestic market accessibility are found to be of particular importance, but substantial heterogeneity exists across regions. The northern provinces, where transport connectivity is limited, have the potential for agricultural growth, exhibiting increasing returns to scale
Agricultural productivity · Agriculture · Business · Cartography · Econometrics · Economic geography · Economics · Endogeneity · Geography · Natural resource economics · Panel data · Production (economics) · Scale (ratio) · Transport engineering · Transport infrastructure · Global trade and economics · Logistics and Infrastructure Analysis · Urban and Freight Transport Logistics
The Impact of Agricultural Extension and Roads on Poverty and Consumption Growth in Fifteen Ethiopian Villages
Elasticities and the Inverse Hyperbolic Sine Transformation
Farther on down the Road
Does public infrastructure affect economic activity?
Rural Roads and Local Market Development in Vietnam
On the road
The impact of improved highways on Indian firms
Port rail connectivity and agricultural production
Railroads of the Raj
The Poverty Impact of Rural Roads
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |