Reading Tealeaves On the Potential Impact of the Privatization of Tea Estates in Rwanda [electronic resource] / Essama-Nssah, B.

By: Essama-Nssah, BContributor(s): Essama-Nssah, B | Ezemenari, Kene | Korman, VijdanMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Washington, D.C., The World Bank, 2008Description: 1 online resource (25 p.)Subject(s): Agricultural products | Agriculture | Average yields | Cash crops | Coffee | Coffee exports | Communities & Human Settlements | Crop | Crops and Crop Management Systems | Fertilizer | Housing and Human Habitats | Plantations | Poverty Monitoring and Analysis | Poverty Reduction | Rural Development | Rural Poverty Reduction | Small Area Estimation Poverty Mapping | Tea | Tea sectorAdditional physical formats: Essama-Nssah, B.: Reading Tealeaves On the Potential Impact of the Privatization of Tea Estates in Rwanda.Online resources: Click here to access online Abstract: The Poverty Reduction Strategy of the Government of Rwanda seeks to unlock the growth and poverty reduction potential of the tea sector through the privatization of tea estates. This paper uses the logic of causal inference and data from the 2004 Quantitative Baseline Survey of the tea sector to assess the potential impact of the privatization program. This entails a normalized comparison of productivity outcomes to account for household heterogeneity in terms of observable and non-observable determinants of these outcomes. The paper also compares living standards between tea and non-tea households. Three main findings emerge from the analysis. Productivity outcomes are generally better in the private sector than in the public sector. Male-headed households outperform female-headed households along all dimensions considered here. And tea households tend to be better off than non-tea households.
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The Poverty Reduction Strategy of the Government of Rwanda seeks to unlock the growth and poverty reduction potential of the tea sector through the privatization of tea estates. This paper uses the logic of causal inference and data from the 2004 Quantitative Baseline Survey of the tea sector to assess the potential impact of the privatization program. This entails a normalized comparison of productivity outcomes to account for household heterogeneity in terms of observable and non-observable determinants of these outcomes. The paper also compares living standards between tea and non-tea households. Three main findings emerge from the analysis. Productivity outcomes are generally better in the private sector than in the public sector. Male-headed households outperform female-headed households along all dimensions considered here. And tea households tend to be better off than non-tea households.

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