“…Several studies have analyzed the impacts of the liberalization reforms on the performance of agricultural markets (for Ethiopia: Worako et al., and Getnet, ; for Tanzania: Kilima et al., , Winter‐Nelson and Temu, , and Coulter and Golob, ; for Tanzania and Mozambique: Mofya‐Mukuka and Abdulai, ; for Uganda: Fafchamps and Hill, ; for El Salvador, India and Indonesia: Subervie, ; and for Brazil: Valdes et al., ). These studies generally attribute the increase in market integration (especially horizontally), decline in market margin and increase in participation of private traders to this liberalization.…”