Reading Tealeaves on the Potential Impact of the Privatization of Tea Estates in Rwanda

Ezemenari, Kene; Essama-Nssah, B.; Korman, Vijdan

Reading Tealeaves on the Potential Impact of the Privatization of Tea Estates in Rwanda

2008

Ezemenari, Kene | Essama-Nssah, B. | Korman, Vijdan

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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AGROVOC Keywords

agricultural products cash crops coffee cooperatives cotton cultivation drainage economic growth expenditure females foreign investment gender harvesting impact assessment income international bank land ownership living conditions living standards plantations poverty reduction privatization produce regression analysis rural development small farmers tea village

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Publisher

World Bank, Washington, DC

Other Subjects

Poverty line; Employment opportunities; Tea sector; Intervention; Per capita income; Selection bias; Crop; Employer; Inhabitants; Capita expenditure; Water source; Counterfactual; Farm productivity; Impact evaluation; Farm activities; Neighborhood; Econometric analysis; Poverty rate; Evaluation methods; Household size; Sample size; Coffee exports; Propensity score matching method; Fertilizer use; Umbrella organization; Female; Fertilizer; Rural economy; Gender bias; Farm; Export crop; Hectares of land; Programs; Exclusion; Matching methods; Livelihood; Household survey; Description; Analysis of poverty; Average yields; Earnings; Instrumental variables; Poor households; Benchmark case; Gender differences; Export crops; Standard applications; Fertilizer cost; Institutional capacity; Experimental methods; Statistical significance

Language

English

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application/pdf, text/plain

License

CC BY 3.0 IGO, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/, World Bank

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