Cross-Border Trade and Infrastructure

A Gender Analysis of Welfare Outcomes in Nigeria

Bibliographic Data

ID3360480
AuthorsEfobi Uchenna (0000-0003-2499-4655, Covenant University, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume9
Issue2
Publication date2019-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSAGE Open (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2158-2440 • E-ISSN: 2158-2440
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/2158244019844076
OpenAlexW2938910084
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited10

This study provides an ex ante analysis of the welfare effect from the improvement of border road infrastructure in Nigeria. It assesses how changes in the price of food commodities induced by border road improvements would affect different types of households. Finally, we also examine how simulated changes in local transportation costs, stemming from road improvements, would affect local prices of imported rice, and taking into consideration the effect of simulated price changes on household welfare across household head, gender, and household location (rural and urban households). Results indicate that policies aiming to improve border roads and thereby lower transportation costs, and subsequently the price of the regularly consumed household commodity, would be more beneficial to rural than urban households. Such policies would likely produce larger welfare gain for poorer households than richer households and would be more beneficial for the poorest female-headed households than their male counterparts

Agricultural economics · Business · Commodity · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Labour economics · Market economy · Public economics · Rural area · Socioeconomics · Welfare · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Global trade and economics

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