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incomes is essential to reducing poverty and ensuring the benefits of growth are distributed more equally. Income growth …
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While economic growth generally reduces income poverty, there are pronounced differences in the strength of this … relationship across countries. Typical explanations for this variation include measurement errors in growth-poverty accounting and … country's growth-poverty relationship and performance. Using multiplier and structural path analysis, we compare the …
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While economic growth generally reduces income poverty, there are pronounced differences in the strength of this … relationship across countries. Typical explanations for this variation include measurement errors in growth-poverty accounting and … country's growth-poverty relationship and performance. Using multiplier and structural path analysis, we compare the …
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Nonfarm activity plays an increasingly important role in rural household income. Based on data from the Living Standards Measurement Study in the provinces of Hebei and Liaoning, the authors study the distribution of nonfarm income in rural China. First, they assume nonfarm income as an...
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Nonfarm activity plays an increasingly important role in rural household income. Based on data from the Living Standards Measurement Study in the provinces of Hebei and Liaoning, the authors study the distribution of nonfarm income in rural China. First, they assume nonfarm income as an...
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data from the Tanzania Social Capital and Poverty Survey (SCPS), a large-scale survey that asked individuals about the … Development, and Poverty and Human Resources, Development Research Group - is part of a larger effort in the Bank to understand …
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In this paper we address the question of farm-nonfarm linkages at the household level for a case-study in Senegal. We examine whether increasing off-farm employment opportunities for rural households - resulting from increased horticulture exports and associated agro-industrialization - has...
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Although most rural households are involved in the farm sector, the nonfarm sector has grown significantly in recent decades, and its role in rural development has become increasingly important. This article examines the effect of participation in nonfarm activities on crop expenses of farm...
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