Reardon, Thomas; Stamoulis, Kostas; Pingali, Prabhu - In: Agricultural Economics 37 (2007) s1, pp. 173-183
Rural nonfarm employment (RNFE) has become a topic of major importance in rural development, as by the mid 2000s, RNFE constituted 35% of rural incomes in Africa and 50% in both Asia and Latin America. The traditional view of RNFE was a sleepy hinterland activity cut off from changes in the...