Attempts to identify incentives that will stimulate diversification of the rural economy and encourage adoption of ecologically sustainable technologies within the traditional sector.

Working paper on nonfarm employment of peasant farmers and skilled workers in Western Guatemala. Examines the rural economy and organisation of agricultural marketing. On the basis of a sample survey of 2544 households in 143 rural communitys carried out from 1976-1978, considers the...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper assessing the importance of social class, caste and land ownership variables in economic analysis of rural economies, comprising a case study of Bihar, India - includes a brief literature survey; based on a 1981 sample survey of poverty and rural employment, shows...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on agrarian reform and rural area poverty alleviation in Nicaragua - examines the rural economy and agrarian structure prior to and after the 1979 revolution, focusing on land tenure, standard of living, rural labour force and patterns of economic growth; describes...

Comprises seven case studies taken from a larger project on rural labour markets and employment policies. Examines how rural labour markets function and the complex factors that condition their outcomes.

Working paper of the manpower needs generated by labour intensive fruit and vegetable agricultural production for export, and the agricultural employment of rural women under a traditional sharecropping system in the Oulja region of Morocco. Analyses the impact of economic development on the...

Covers the period from 1956 to 1992.

Examines the economic significance of micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in Viet Nam and assesses the policy and legal environment for MSEs in seven key areas: specific MSE policies; business laws and regulations; taxation; labour policy; trade; finance, credit and bankruptcy polices; and...