Integrating BoP Producers with High-Income Markets: Designing Institutional Arrangements for West African Shea nut Butter Producers
研究测试了付款方式、第三方控制和营销能力三个制度安排对贝宁乳木果女性加工者向高收入渠道销售意愿的影响，发现三者均有显著作用且存在交互效应。
ABSTRACT To reduce poverty, policy makers in developing and emerging markets have tried to connect producers at the Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP) to high-income markets. With supermarkets and exporters stretching their influence in these markets, policy makers can build their policies on the arrangements that companies offer to BoP producers. Although prior studies show that this approach is in general effective, no studies address the design of arrangements to increase their acceptance among BoP producers. This study tests the effects of three components of such arrangements (payment on delivery, third-party control and marketing competence) on female processors of shea nuts in Benin. The results show that all three components have significant effects on the intended sales to the high-income-channel, that the effects of some components are contingent on the remoteness of the BoP producers, and that the components interact. Two variables pertaining to institutional support (microcredits and information prov...