Non-traditional crops, traditional constraints : the adoption and diffusion of export crops among guatemalan smallholders (English)

This paper uses a duration analysis based on adoption data spanning more than 25 years from six communities in the Central Highlands of Guatemala. The analysis explores how household characteristics and external trends play into both the adoption and diffusion processes of non-traditional exports among smallholders. Adoption was initially widespread and rapid, which led nontraditional exports to be hailed as a pro-poor success, reaching all but the...

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Carletto,Calogero;

Davis,Benjamin K.;

Kirk,Angeli;

Winters,Paul Conal;
Document Date
2007/09/01
Document Type
Policy Research Working Paper
Report Number
WPS4347
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
Guatemala,
Region
Latin America and Caribbean,
Disclosure Date
2010/07/01
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
Doc Name
Non-traditional crops, traditional constraints : the adoption and diffusion of export crops among guatemalan smallholders
Keywords
maximum likelihood

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Carletto,Calogero; Davis,Benjamin K.; Kirk,Angeli; Winters,Paul Conal.

Non-traditional crops, traditional constraints : the adoption and diffusion of export crops among guatemalan smallholders (English). Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 4347 Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/596861468252663897

Non-traditional crops, traditional constraints : the adoption and diffusion of export crops among guatemalan smallholders (English)

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