Asset Inequality and Agricultural Growth: How Are Patterns of Asset Inequality Established and Reproduced?

Asset Inequality and Agricultural Growth: How Are Patterns of Asset Inequality Established and Reproduced?

The relationship between distributions of asset inequality, how these distributions are created and maintained, and agricultural growth are explored. The paper studies Ethiopian agriculture to investigate how differential access to productive assets in the agricultural sector, at various levels (reg...

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Main Author: Sabates-Wheeler, Rachel
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC: World Bank 2012
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World Development Report 2006
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9049
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spelling okr-10986-90492021-04-23T14:02:44Z Asset Inequality and Agricultural Growth: How Are Patterns of Asset Inequality Established and Reproduced? Sabates-Wheeler, Rachel World Development Report 2006 The relationship between distributions of asset inequality, how these distributions are created and maintained, and agricultural growth are explored. The paper studies Ethiopian agriculture to investigate how differential access to productive assets in the agricultural sector, at various levels (regional, community and household), effect inequalities in agricultural outcomes in terms of productivity and poverty. The dominant discourse on agricultural productivity and distribution has been largely focused on input-output relationships, defined and measured with a yardstick specific to economics. In this study, the processes and institutions that link inequality and productivity are explored. In the Ethiopian case, the persistent nature of inequality is causally related to historical choices and path dependency. What is observed is a complex system whereby inequality affects growth which in turn reinforces processes that exacerbate and reproduce inequalities. 2012-06-26T15:35:12Z 2012-06-26T15:35:12Z 2005 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9049 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Washington, DC: World Bank Africa Latin America & Caribbean
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Asset Inequality and Agricultural Growth: How Are Patterns of Asset Inequality Established and Reproduced?
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description The relationship between distributions of asset inequality, how these distributions are created and maintained, and agricultural growth are explored. The paper studies Ethiopian agriculture to investigate how differential access to productive assets in the agricultural sector, at various levels (regional, community and household), effect inequalities in agricultural outcomes in terms of productivity and poverty. The dominant discourse on agricultural productivity and distribution has been largely focused on input-output relationships, defined and measured with a yardstick specific to economics. In this study, the processes and institutions that link inequality and productivity are explored. In the Ethiopian case, the persistent nature of inequality is causally related to historical choices and path dependency. What is observed is a complex system whereby inequality affects growth which in turn reinforces processes that exacerbate and reproduce inequalities.
author Sabates-Wheeler, Rachel
author_facet Sabates-Wheeler, Rachel
author_sort Sabates-Wheeler, Rachel
title Asset Inequality and Agricultural Growth: How Are Patterns of Asset Inequality Established and Reproduced?
title_short Asset Inequality and Agricultural Growth: How Are Patterns of Asset Inequality Established and Reproduced?
title_full Asset Inequality and Agricultural Growth: How Are Patterns of Asset Inequality Established and Reproduced?
title_fullStr Asset Inequality and Agricultural Growth: How Are Patterns of Asset Inequality Established and Reproduced?
title_full_unstemmed Asset Inequality and Agricultural Growth: How Are Patterns of Asset Inequality Established and Reproduced?
title_sort asset inequality and agricultural growth: how are patterns of asset inequality established and reproduced?
publisher Washington, DC: World Bank
publishDate 2012
url http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9049
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