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Burkina Faso: Shipping around the Malthusian Trap
Michael Grimm University of Passau, Erasmus University Rotterdam, IZA Bonn
Claude Wetta
Centre d’Etudes, de Documentation et Recherches Economiques et Sociales (CEDRES) de l’Université Ouagadougou II, Burkina Faso
Aude Nikiema
Institut National des Sciences Sociales (INSS) du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique et Technologique (CNRST), Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
This paper is commissioned by the United Nations University’s World Institute of Development Economics Research (WIDER) and contributes to WIDER’s Growth and
Poverty Project (GAPP). Financial support is gratefully acknowledged.
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Sustained economic growth, but only moderate poverty reduction …
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Food crisis
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Devaluation
Drought
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0.56
0.62
0.47 0.44
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… and hence a very low growth-elasticity of poverty
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Country Period Growth-elasticity of poverty
Burkina Faso 1994-2009 -0.540 Bangladesh 1992-2000 -0.906 Bolivia 1989-2002 -0.855 Brazil 1993-2001 -1.565 Indonesia 1993-1996 -1.190 Ghana 1992-1999 -2.393 Tunisia 1990-2000 -1.250 Vietnam 1993-2002 -1.370
Source: Burkina Faso: own calculation. All other countries, OPPG.
… why??
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The „story“ up-front • Economic growth had two sources
– A massive rural-urban migration – An increase in agricultural production, both food crops and cotton, almost
uniquely based on the expansion of cultivable land.
• Both sources are unsustainable.
• Structural change is virtually absent.
• Given the stagnation of agricultural productivity and the limits to
further land expansion as well as the massive population growth the country is experiencing a steady rise in food prices which is eroding the purchasing power of the population.
• Food price inflation is so substantial, that it seems to seriously affect children’s nutrition and health.
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Economic growth by sector, population growth and migration
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Sectoral GDP over time
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Rural and urban population growth
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Sectoral GDP per capita over time
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Sectoral GDP per capita growth rates over time
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Rural and urban employment dynamics
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The development of land use, production and productivity in food and cotton
production
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Cereal and cotton production
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Stagnating cotton price
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Food price dynamics and purchasing power
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Food price inflation
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Impact of food price inflation
• Poor households spend a substantial share of their income on food crops.
• Poor households have very limited possibilities to substitute food crops in their diet.
• Most households are net consumers, not net producers of basic cereals.
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The role of differential inflation
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1994-1998 1998-2003 1994-2003
povertygrowthredistributionpoverty line
Source: Günther and Grimm (JDE, 2007), Augmented DR decomposition.
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Development of children‘s health
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Children‘s malnutrition and mortality
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Conclusion
• A doubling of the population since 1985, rapid urbanization and absence of any substantial structural change …
… today 6.5 million people below the poverty line, i.e. about 1 million more than in 1994.
• Without substantial structural change Burkina Faso will not be in a
position to absorb the 0.3 to 0.5 million men and women that enter each year the labour force.
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Conclusion
Next questions: Why has structural transformation not taken place?
Political Economy? Too much donor involvement? Lack of committment?
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To Pinkowsky and Sala-i-Martin (2010) and Young (2012):
• This study identifies (endogenous) food price inflation as a major driver of poverty.
• Its adverse effects on the poor would have remained largely unnoticed, if we had, as in Pinkovsky and Sala-i-Martin (2010), used an approach that uniquely focuses on GDP, GDP deflators and nominal expenditure distributions.
• It would also have remained unnoticed if we had, as in Young (2012), focused on asset ownership, … … since this approach ignores shifts in relative prices, i.e. the fact that in many regions food becomes more and more expensive relative to durables … … this makes it unlikely that the income-elasticity-of-asset-demand, as Young assumes, stays constant over longer periods of time.
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Thank You!
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Outline
• Economic growth by sector, population growth and migration
• The development of land use, production and agricultural productivity
• Food price dynamics and purchasing power
• Development of children‘s health
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Cereal and cotton production
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Budget shares and farmers‘ market integration
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Rural
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Budget shares and farmers‘ market integration
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Urban
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Food imports and population growth (1996=100)
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