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Options for suitable biofuel farming : experience from Southern Africa

Von Maltitz, Graham - 2017

ensure sound and equitable returns for land and labour inputs is critical. …

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Gustafsson, Björn; Ding, Sai - 2010

This paper analyses political elites, economic elites, hybrid elite households and non-elite households in rural China using household data for 1995 and 2002. We seek to understand the determinants of belonging to each of the three elite categories. We find that education and military experience...

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The dynamics of inequality change in a highly dualistic economy : Honduras, 1991 - 2007

Klasen, Stephan; Otter, Thomas; Villalobos Barría, Carlos - 2012

We examine the drivers of inequality change in Honduras between 1991-2007, trying to understand why inequality increased in Honduras until 2005, while it was falling in most other Latin American countries. Using annual household surveys, we document first rising inequality between 1991-2005,...

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Land issues in Vietnam 2006 - 14 : markets, property rights, and investment

Markussen, Thomas - 2015

This paper uses five waves of the Vietnam Access to Resources Household Survey (VARHS) to analyse land issues in Viet … rich data set to present descriptive results on landlessness, land fragmentation, land market activities, and land property … rights. I use plot level, fixed effects regressions to investigate the effects of land titles (Land Use Certificates) on …

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Local transformation in rural Vietnam : a commune level analysis

Beck, Ulrik - 2015

well as land markets. While many areas showed great improvements over the period, the level and the speed of transformation …

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Ties that bind : the kin system as a mechanism of income-hiding between spouses in rural Ghana

Castilla, Carolina - 2013

I present a model of intra-household allocation to show that when income is not perfectly observed by both spouses, hiding of income can occur even when revelation increases bargaining power. I draw data from Ghana and exploit the variation in the degree of asymmetric information between...

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Rural household income mobility in transitional China : evidence from China Household Income Project

Yang, Sui - 2015

Based on China Household Income Project rural data, this paper aims to study the changes of rural household income mobility in transitional China. The results show that with the economic reform and development, income mobility between 2007 and 2009 was much stronger than before. Regarding the...

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The happy farmer : self-employment and subjective well-being in rural Vietnam

Markussen, Thomas; Fibæk, Maria; Tarp, Finn; Tuan, … - 2014

Using survey data from rural Vietnam, this paper documents a statistically significant, positive effect of self-employment in farming on subjective well-being. Wage workers are less happy than farmers across a range of different types of wage jobs. These results suggest that structural...

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Political connections and investment in rural Vietnam

Markussen, Thomas; Tarp, Finn - 2011

increase their investment in land improvement as a result of relatives moving into public office. Connections to office holders … appear to be important for investment because they strengthen de facto land property rights and improve access to off … ; land property rights ; investment ; credit ; Vietnam …

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Reference groups and the poverty line : an axiomatic approach with an empirical illustration

Chakravarty, Satya R.; Chattopadhyay, Nachiketa; … - 2015

A recent trend in the study of poverty is to consider a relative poverty line, one that is responsive to the nature of the income distribution. We develop an axiomatic approach to the determination of an amalgam poverty line. Given a reference income (e.g. the mean or the median), the amalgam...

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