People's Democratic Republic, and Vietnam), whose performance in export and income growth has been strikingly better than …

explore the relationship between rural diversification and poverty. Poverty in rural India declined at a modest rate during …. During this period, the rural non-farm sector grew modestly, mainly between the last two survey rounds. Regular non … confirms the important contribution to rural poverty reduction from agricultural productivity, availability of land, and …

business in rural Tanzania. Using unique survey data, the authors describe a low-return sector struggling to compete in a … difficult business environment. However, about one-third of rural enterprises are growing fast. Most enterprises engage in … agricultural trade. Due to a rapidly growing agricultural sector in recent years, limiting demand-side constraints, rural …

"The author addresses the labor markets in rural and semi-urban Mexico. The empirical analyses show that non …-farm income shares increase with overall consumption levels and, also, with time. Rural-dwellers in lower quintiles of the …, low-productivity wage labor activities are important. The quantile wage regression analysis for rural Mexico shows a …