@article{Minot:59829,
      recid = {59829},
      author = {Minot, Nicholas},
      title = {Are poor, remote areas left behind in agricultural  development: the case of Tanzania},
      address = {2005-12},
      number = {596-2016-40033},
      series = {MTID Discussion Paper},
      pages = {57},
      year = {2005},
      abstract = {In Tanzania, as in many other developing countries, the  conventional wisdom is
that economic reforms may have  stimulated economic growth, but that the benefits of  this
growth have been uneven, favoring urban households and  farmers with good market
access. This idea, although quite  plausible, has rarely been tested empirically. In  this
paper, we develop a new approach to measuring trends  in poverty and apply it to
Tanzania in order to explore the  distributional aspects of economic growth and  the
relationship between rural poverty and market access.  We find that, between 1991 and
2003, a period of extensive  economic reforms, the overall rate of poverty fell about  9
percentage points. The degree of poverty reduction was  similar between rural and urban
areas, though poverty  appears not to have declined in Dar es Salaam. The poverty  rate
fell more among households with a less educated head  of household than among those
with a more educated head.  The gains were greater among male-headed households  than
female-headed households. We find that rural poverty  is associated with remoteness, but
the relationship is  surprisingly weak and it varies depending on the definition  used. Rural
poverty is more closely related to access to  regional urban centers than distance to roads
or to Dar es  Salaam. We find little evidence that remote rural areas are  being “left
behind” in terms of the absolute decline in the  poverty rate.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/59829},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.59829},
}