Eliminating Uncertainty in Market Access: The Impact of New Bridges in Rural Nicaragua

Brooks, Wyatt; Donovan, Kevin

doi:10.3982/ecta15828

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“…Farmers can also use other infrastructures, such as roads, rails and ports, to obtain information and physical access to agricultural markets (Usman and Callo--Concha 2021). For example, the construction of bridges in Nicaragua has been shown to increase farmers' access to information and the ability to physically access urban markets from rural areas (Brooks and Donovan 2020). Meanwhile, in remote areas, such as the Andes mountains in Peru, road construction has been proven to accelerate farmers' access to urban markets and ability to obtain accurate information on consumer needs (Aguirre et al 2018).…”

Section: Proposed Strategies To Combat the Lack Of The Informationmentioning

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Agricultural market information in developing countries: A literature review

Nugroho¹

2021

AGR ECON-CZECH

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In most developing countries, the agricultural industry has the potential to alleviate poverty at a faster rate compared to other sectors. As such, many governments have initiated policies and programme to improve agricultural performance. However, some of these projects have not achieved success because the local agricultural markets are often controlled by a small group of stakeholders who tend to hide information in the market despite having huge market power. This paper aimed to determine the issues and impacts of the lack of market information in developing countries and to provide strategies for solving such problems. Results show that the presence of an oligopsonic market system, current information and communication technology (ICTs), the lack of market infrastructure and gender limitations are the main issues related to a lack of information. In turn, lack of information leads to an inefficient agricultural market, causes negative impacts on market participants, and ultimately leads to harmful socio-economic effects. Thus, to solve these problems, it is necessary to improve capacity building, increase access to ICTs and improve market infrastructure.

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Agricultural market information in developing countries: A literature review

Nugroho¹

2021

AGR ECON-CZECH

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“…Finally, just as public roads and bridges support private economic activity (Asher and Novosad, 2020;Brooks and Donovan, 2020), large-scale scientific infrastructure investments may support other scientific investment. In addition to funding research applications or scientific education, governments also fund large, shared infrastructure such as the early internet, particle colliders like the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC), and biological repositories.…”

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Innovation: Market Failures and Public Policies

Bryan¹,

Williams²

2021

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This is an invited chapter for the forthcoming Volume 4 of the Handbook of Industrial Organization. We summarize the state of the literature on the economics of innovation and highlight open policy questions. We first articulate the key market failures in markets for innovation, and then discuss how both scientific norms and market-oriented policies help overcome those market failures. We close by discussing recent work on the diffusion of inventions as well as on the links between innovation and inequality.

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“…B2P has constructed more than 300 footbridges in 20 countries, an infrastructure intervention that is cost-effective, durable, and relatively simple to scale. An economic impact evaluation of B2Ps footbridges in Nicaragua found a 35.8% increase in labor market income attributable to the access provided by the bridges [40].…”

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Toward a New Field of Global Engineering

Thomas

2019

Sustainability

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The Engineer’s role in addressing global poverty challenges has often been confined to village and community-scale interventions, product design and development, or large-scale infrastructure design and construction. Yet despite fifty years of these approaches, over half the world’s population still lives on less than $5.50 a day, the global burden of disease in low-income countries is overwhelmingly attributable to environmental health contaminants, and climate change is already negatively affecting people in developing countries. The conventional community, product or infrastructure focuses of development engineering is insufficient to address these global drivers that perpetuate poverty. The emerging field of Global Engineering can work to identify and address these structural issues. Global Engineering should be concerned with the unequal and unjust distribution of access to basic services such as water, sanitation, energy, food, transportation and shelter, and place an emphasis on identifying the drivers, determinants and solutions favoring equitable access. Technology development and validation, data collection and impact evaluation can contribute to evidence-based influence on policies and practice. Global Engineering envisions a world in which everyone has safe water, sanitation, energy, food, shelter and infrastructure, and can live in health, dignity, and prosperity.

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Eliminating Uncertainty in Market Access: The Impact of New Bridges in Rural Nicaragua

Cited by 60 publications

References 33 publications

Agricultural market information in developing countries: A literature review

Agricultural market information in developing countries: A literature review

Innovation: Market Failures and Public Policies

Toward a New Field of Global Engineering

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