The Private Sector and the Marginalized Poor - An Assessment of the Potential Role of Business in Reducing Poverty and Marginality in Rural Ethiopia

The book examines the role that the private sector can play in reducing poverty and marginality in Ethiopia by providing improved agricultural inputs to marginalized poor farmers. By creating a marginality map the author analyzes who and where the marginalized poor are. Data from a household survey about purchasing behavior, demand and needs indicates that this group can be a promising market segment for the private sector if adequate business models are applied. Yet, an analysis of the institutions governing agricultural input markets shows that investments by the private sector are discouraged by de facto monopolies of the government on crucial elements of the different supply chains, including seed breeding, fertilizer imports and finance.

List of contents

Contents: Marginality is a root cause of poverty - Role of private sector in poverty reduction - Purchasing behavior and needs of the marginalized poor - High transaction costs on Ethiopian agricultural input markets as disincentives for the private sector.

Product details

• Authors: Christine Husmann
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2016
• EAN: 9783631671887
• ISBN: 978-3-631-67188-7
• No. of pages: 259
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 19 mm x 218 mm
• Weight: 440 g
• Series: Development Economics and Policy; Development Economics and Policy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics