"This paper analyzes characteristics of nonfarm enterprises, their employment growth patterns, and constraints in doing …, road infrastructure, and rural cell phone communication is correlated with employment growth. A major finding is that …

Lanka, and, consistent with this economic transformation, the structure of employment also changed. Thus, as labor migrates …

explore the relationship between rural diversification and poverty. Poverty in rural India declined at a modest rate during … at the beginning of the survey period by 2004. This all-India trajectory masks widely varying trends across states …-farm employment remains largely associated with education levels and social status that are rare among the poor. However, casual labor …

recovery and political stabilization in the last decade, insufficient employment has been created, leading to high unemployment … institutional environment that is not fully supportive of employment creation. Action needs to be taken now to promote inclusive … growth in the non-oil sectors and create sufficient employment opportunities. It is essential to remove the major obstacles …

"By developing a simple theoretical model of the impact of market integration on sectoral output and employment in a …

that the benefits to nonfarm self-employment are much higher among the nonpoor than among the poor. Third, the authors show …--is part of a larger effort in the network to understand rural nonfarm employment determinants"--World Bank web site …