AgEcon Search (University of Minnesota, USA) · 2001 · 189 citations · 25 references
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Corresponding author: 351 Warren Hall, Dept. of Agricultural, Resource and ManagerialEconomics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-7801 USA, tel: 607-255-4489, fax: 607-355-9984, email: cbb2@cornell.edu.*Barrett is Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural, Resource and ManagerialEconomics, Cornell University, Bezuneh is Associate Professor, Department of Economics,Clark Atlanta University, Clay is Director, Institute for International Agriculture, Michigan StateUniversity, and Reardon is Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics,Michigan State University. We thank Abdillahi Aboud, Michael Carter, Jean Paul Chavas,Layne Coppock, Solomon Desta, Frank Ellis, Peter Little, and Kevin Smith for helpfuldiscussions that helped shape parts of this paper. We thank the West Africa Rice DevelopmentAssociation for making data available and Heidi Gjersten for able research assistance. This workwas made possible by support provided in part by the US Agency for International Development(USAID) Agreement No. LAG-A-00-96-90016-00 through the Broadening Access andStrengthening Input Market Systems Collaborative Research Support Program (BASIS CRSP).All views, interpretations, recommendations, and conclusions expressed in the paper are those ofthe authors and not necessarily those of the supporting or cooperating institutions.
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