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Agricultural Productivity and Non-Farm Employment : Evidence from Bangladesh
Shilpi, Forhad - 2018
village sample leads to underestimation of agriculture's role in employment growth and transformation of non-farm activities …
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Moving Off the Farm : Land Institutions to Facilitate Structural Transformation and Agricultural Productivity Growth in China
Deininger, Klaus - 2017
Agriculture has made major contributions to China's economic growth and poverty reduction, but the literature has … households to exit from agriculture or send family members to the non-farm sector. It finds that land tenure insecurity, measured … by the history of past land reallocations, discourages households from quitting agriculture. The recognition of land …
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The Impact of Positive Agricultural Income Shocks on Rural Chinese Households
Leight, Jessica - 2018
among households who had not previously diversified out of agriculture …
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Short-Term Effects of India's Employment Guarantee Program on Labor Markets and Agricultural Productivity
Deininger, Klaus - 2018
This paper uses a large national household panel from 1999/2000 and 2007/08 to analyze the short-term effects of India …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012936139
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Welfare and Poverty Impacts of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme : Evidence from Andhra Pradesh
Deininger, Klaus - 2017
This paper uses a three-round 4,000-household panel from Andhra Pradesh together with administrative data to explore short and medium-term poverty and welfare effects of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. Triple difference estimates suggest that participants significantly increase...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974142
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Does Urbanization Affect Rural Poverty? Evidence from Indian Districts
Calì, Massimiliano - 2017
Although a high rate of urbanization and a high incidence of rural poverty are two distinct features of many developing countries, there is little knowledge of the effects of the former on the latter. Using a large sample of Indian districts from the 1983-1999 period, the authors find that...
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Evaluating Workfare When the Work is Unpleasant : Evidence for India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
Alik-Lagrange, Arthur - 2017
theoretically ambiguous implications for the impacts on poverty. In the case of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974816
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Gender and Rural Non-Farm Entrepreneurship
Rijkers, Bob - 2017
Despite their increasing prominence in policy debates, little is known about gender inequities in non-agricultural labor market outcomes in rural areas. Using matched household-enterprise-community data sets from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Indonesia and Sri Lanka, this paper documents and analyzes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975242
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Does India's Employment Guarantee Scheme Guarantee Employment?
Dutta, Puja - 2017
In 2005 India introduced an ambitious national anti-poverty program, now called the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural … the way it is designed, then anyone who wanted work on the scheme would get it. However, analysis of data from India …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975345
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Salt of the Earth : Quantifying the Impact of Water Salinity on Global Agricultural Productivity
Russ, Jason Daniel - 2020
Salinity in surface waters is on the rise throughout much of the world. Many factors contribute to this change, including increased water extraction, poor irrigation management, and sea-level rise. To date no study has attempted to quantify the impacts on global food production. This paper...
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