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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH
Volume 23, Issue 3, Pages 426-443Publisher
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN LTD
DOI: 10.1057/ejdr.2011.8
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markets; gender; intra-household allocation; income; expenditure
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Linking smallholder farmers to markets and making markets work for the poor is increasingly becoming an important part of the global research and development agenda. Organizations have used various strategies to link farmers to markets. These approaches have mainly been evaluated for their potential to increase participation in markets and household incomes. The evaluations have assumed a unitary household where income and resources are pooled and allocated according to a joint utility function. In most households, however, income is rarely pooled and neither are resources jointly allocated. This article uses data from Malawi and Uganda to analyze what influences income distribution between men and women, focusing on the type of commodity, type of market and approaches used. The results indicate that commodities generating lower average revenues are more likely to be controlled by women, whereas men control commodities that are high revenue generators, often sold in formal markets.
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