CSAE Conference 2020 on Economic Development in Africa African Economic Research Consortium Collaborative Research on Healthcare Financing in Sub Saharan Africa Country Case Studies
This paper analyzes the effects of medical emergency on agriculture exports and the corresponding tax revenues by smallholder farmers in Cote d'Ivoire. It uses two complementary datasets: the 2016 CGAP smallholder survey and the 2015 Cote d'Ivoire living standard survey. The paper finds that a medical emergency decreases the likelihood that a smallholder farmer cultivates cocoa by 3.9 percentage points, drives them into poverty, and decreases the productivity by 10.5 percentage points. The paper then estimates that medical emergencies can decline cocoa exports by $922 million and tax revenues by $135 million, which represents 0.2% of the Ivorian GDP in 2017.