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-employed individuals in rural Rwanda have significantly higher earnings than farm workers and nonfarm formal employees. Second, they show …--is part of a larger effort in the network to understand rural nonfarm employment determinants"--World Bank web site …
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The report is structured as follows. Section one examines the contribution of the rural economy to the national economy … constraints affecting the wider rural economy including, reforms in macro-economic management, recent external influences and … performance of the rural economy. Section four describes the extent to which policy makers should prioritize the farm and non …
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The report reviews the macroeconomic perspectives of Uruguay, focused on its rural development and natural resources … dimensions of the rural economy, its income distribution is the least-skewed in the region, but, regardless of the relatively … small number of rural poor - highly dependent on wage labor - given the high levels of literacy, future efforts should be …
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"The authors examine the factors affecting the transition to self-employment in Bosnia and Herzegovina, using the World Bank Living Standard Measurement Survey panel household survey for the years 2001-2004. In the beginning of the sample, the country changed its legal framework, with the...
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"The author examines, taking into account the urban-rural divides, the changes and welfare implications of income … that, in general, rural households tend to have a more diversified portfolio of income compared with their urban … in the level of diversification within the rural and urban areas depending on wealth: While the relatively better …
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, together spanning a range of conditions in rural India: Maharashtra and Orissa. The secondary objectives of the study were to … of water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions on rural livelihoods, such as savings in time, materials, and money …
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