the poorest rural regions of the world (Uttar Pradesh, India). Methodologically, it shows how indicators from the direct …

Estimates of the number of people living in extreme poverty, as reported by the World Bank, figure prominently in … presumed poverty covariates (i.e., years of schooling, literacy, asset index, working in agriculture, access to electricity …

agriculture and focus on the literature on entrepreneurship in Africa's structural transformation. I present a conceptual model to … describe how entrepreneurship reallocates farmers out of agriculture into non-agricultural activities and locations. Recent …African agriculture's importance for sustainable development is well appreciated. Indeed, recent years have seen a …

agriculture, implying that average productivity in agriculture increases as the agricultural employment share decreases. We … from four Sub-Saharan African countries. Around one third of households engage in both agriculture and non …-farming entrepreneurship. We find that more productive farming households are more likely to also engage in non-farm entrepreneurship, allocate …