TY  - JOUR
AU  - Gollin,Douglas
AU  - Rogerson,Richard
TI  - Agriculture, Roads, and Economic Development in Uganda
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 15863
PY  - 2010
Y2  - April 2010
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w15863
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w15863.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Douglas Gollin
Department of Economics
Williams College
24 Hopkins Hall Drive
Williamstown, MA 01267
Tel: 203-773-1049
E-Mail: Douglas.Gollin@qeh.ox.ac.uk

Richard Rogerson
Woodrow Wilson School of
Public and International Affairs
323 Bendheim Hall
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544
Tel: 609-258-4839
Fax: 609-258-5349
E-Mail: rdr@princeton.edu
M3  - presented at "Afican Development Successes", December 11-12, 2009
AB  - A large fraction of Uganda's population continues to earn a living from quasi-subsistence agriculture. This paper uses a static general equilibrium model to explore the relationships between high transportation costs, low productivity, and the size of the quasi-subsistence sector. We parameterize the model to replicate some key features of the Ugandan data, and we then perform a series of quantitative experiments. Our results suggest that the population in quasi-subsistence agriculture is highly sensitive both to agricultural productivity levels and to transportation costs. The model also suggests positive complementarities between improvements in agricultural productivity and transportation.
ER  -