employment opportunities for the rural labor force. This chapter explores the key processes of long-term poverty reduction in …Many rural households in Asia have been able to move out of poverty in the presence of increasing scarcity of farmland … sources away from farm to nonfarm activities. Increased participation in nonfarm employment has been more pronounced among the …

This paper empirically examines the relationship between employment, wages and ethnicity via a case study of Kenya. I … the possibility of employment and the level of wages. I do this using data from the 1986 Labor Force Survey which due to … politically dominant national group has no effect on likelihood of employment in one of the premium categories. My findings …

employment opportunities for the rural labor force. This chapter explores the key processes of long-term poverty reduction in …Many rural households in Asia have been able to move out of poverty in the presence of increasing scarcity of farmland … sources away from farm to nonfarm activities. Increased participation in nonfarm employment has been more pronounced among the …

consumption patterns seem to be related to the persistence of poverty. We offer an explanation for this observation, based on a …Poor families around the world spend a large fraction of their income on consumption of goods that appear to be useless … in alleviating poverty, while saving at very low rates and neglecting investment in health and education. Such …

in rural areas, but it has not reduced poverty that much, not least because of how it is administered. Moreover, the …

research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap … in wealth, attempting to highlight the paths between the various facets of gender inequality. Throughout the review, much …