Realizing the Gains From Trade: Export Crops, Marketing Costs, and Poverty

This paper explores the role of export costs in the process of poverty reduction in rural Africa. We claim that the marketing costs that emerge when the commercialization of export crops requires intermediaries can lead to lower participation into export cropping and, thus, to higher poverty. We

本文探讨了出口成本在非洲农村减贫进程中的作用。本文主张，当出口作物商业化需要依托中间商时所产生的营销成本，会降低农户参与出口作物种植的意愿与规模，进而加剧贫困问题。