Globalization and Poverty in Senegal: A Worst Case Scenario?

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There is no consensus about how globalization -trade and foreign investments ?affects poverty reduction. Using household survey data, this study contributes to the empirical literature on globalization and poverty by analyzing the household-level implications of increased foreign investments and trade in the horticulture sector in Senegal. In many aspects this represents what many would consider a 'worst-case scenario? Stringent rich country standards are imposed on exports and the supply chain is controlled by a single multinational company with extreme levels of supply base consolidation and vertical integration and complete exclusion of smallholder suppliers. We analyze and quantify income and poverty effects under these 'worst-case conditions?and find significant positive welfare impacts through employment creation and labor market participation.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: LICOS Discussion Paper ; No. 217

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Agricultural Labor Markets ; Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development ; Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets ; Agriculture in International Trade
• Thema: trade ; FDI ; poverty ; vertical coordination ; modern supply chains ; Globalisierung ; Direktinvestition ; Gartenbauprodukt ; Außenhandel ; Vertikale Konzentration ; Wohlfahrtsanalyse ; Senegal

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Maertens, Miet ; Colen, Liesbeth ; Swinnen, Johan F.M.
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance
• (wo): Leuven
• (wann): 2008

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/74876
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ