This paper assesses the relation between access to markets and cultivated land in Sub-Saharan Africa. Making use of a geo-referenced panel over three decades (1970-2005) during which the road network was significantly improved, the analysis finds a modest but significant positive association between increased market accessibility and local cropland expansion. It also finds that cropland expansion, in turn, is associated with a small but significant...
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2016/06/27
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Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques
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WPS7729
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2016/06/27
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Disclosed
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Roads and rural development in Sub-Saharan Africa
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natural logarithm