Although non-farm enterprises are ubiquitous in rural Sub-Saharan Africa, little is yet known about their productivity …, Malawi, Nigeria, and Uganda. Using the World Bank's LSMS-ISA database, we find that rural enterprises are on average less …, and location matter for labor productivity in rural Africa, and that policy decisions tackling the shortcomings could …

understanding of rural non-farm entrepreneurship, particularly with regard to the role of young adults in this sector. This paper …Africa is not only the poorest and most rural continent, it is also the most youthful continent in terms of population … the contribution they make to rural household income, the (ii) determinants of enterprise operation, and (iii) labor …

We are the first to provide a comparative empirical analysis of non-farm entrepreneurship in rural Africa, using the … variables show consistency across the sample, we also find much heterogeneity, suggesting that rural entrepreneurship is also a … identified as a priority for African countries, rural entrepreneurship continues to fulfill mainly a risk-diversifying role. This …

The productivity of non-farm enterprises in rural Africa may be associated with the productivity of other spatially … from the geo-referenced 2011 Ethiopian Rural Socioeconomic Survey (ERSS) and the 2010/2011 Nigeria General Household Survey … across space in both countries. In Ethiopia rural non-farm enterprises are more productive in locations where farms are less …

with a lowering of chain TFP by about 0.4% pa, about 40% of the post-1995 slowdown in UK retail TFP growth. The foregone …

program targeted at rural areas in France, including corporate and payroll tax exemptions. We find no impact of the program on …. Comparison with a contemporaneous urban scheme suggests ways the incentives of the rural program could be targeted more …

shift generated only modest economic gains in rural areas, primarily in the form of increased selfemployment earnings and … increased labor supply by teenage boys. The results also suggest that the rural areas which saw accelerated coca production …

menstrual cycle are not met because their household has poor access to water. For testing, we use the data from rural villages …