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E-Commerce Participation and Household Income Growth in Taobao Villages
Luo, Xubei - 2019
opportunities, including for women and youth. This paper examines the role of e-commerce participation in household income growth …-commerce participation is not random: participation is higher among the households with younger household heads, with secondary education …-commerce participation is associated with higher household income, with some indications that participation has a strong positive effect on …
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Pathways Out of Poverty During an Economic Crisis : An Empirical Assessment of Rural Indonesia
McCulloch, Neil A. - 2016
Most poor people in developing countries still live in rural areas and are primarily engaged in low productivity farming activities. Thus pathways out of poverty are likely to be strongly connected to productivity increases in the rural economy, whether they are realized in farming, in rural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747801
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Responses to Weather and Climate : A Cross-Section Analysis of Rural Incomes
Noack, Frederik - 2017
featuring forests as potentially important in household coping strategies … variability impact their livelihoods? This paper sheds light on these two questions with household income data from the Poverty … extraction of wild resources (from natural forests, bushlands, fallows, etc.) provides on average as much income (about 27 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012970676
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Poverty and Inequality Maps for Rural Vietnam : An Application of Small Area Estimation
Nguyen, Cuong Viet - 2017
The objective of the paper is to update the small area estimates of poverty and inequality for rural Vietnam. The new estimates of province and district level poverty for the year 2006, when combined with estimates available for 1999, allow for examination of how poverty has changed in rural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976345
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The Role of Services in Rural Income : The Case of Vietnam
Aksoy, Ataman - 2016
This paper investigates the role of services in the household response to trade reforms in Vietnam. The relative … different localities, household characteristics become more important in determining the response …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747796
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Income Diversification in Zimbabwe : Welfare Implications from Urban and Rural Areas
Ersado, Lire - 2016
The author examines, taking into account the urban-rural divides, the changes and welfare implications of income diversification in Zimbabwe following macroeconomic policy changes and droughts of the early 1990s. Data from two comparable national income, consumption and expenditure surveys in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012748016
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Jati Inequality in Rural Bihar
Joshi, Shareen - 2018
Caste is a persistent driver of inequality in India, and it is generally analyzed with government-defined broad categories, such as Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe. In everyday life, however, caste is lived and experienced as jati, which is a local system of stratification. Little is known...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912317
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Long-Term Impacts of Global Food Crisis on Production Decisions : Evidence from Farm Investments in Indonesia
Nose, Manabu - 2017
Did the rise in food prices have a long-term impact on agricultural production? Using household-level panel data from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975241
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Did Higher Inequality Impede Growth in Rural China?
Benjamin, Dwayne - 2017
This paper estimates the relationship between initial village inequality and subsequent household income growth for a … for an array of household and village characteristics, the paper finds that households located in higher inequality … effects are significantly diminished by the end of the sample. The paper exploits several advantages of the household …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976278
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Estimating the Long-Run Impact of Microcredit Programs on Household Income and Net Worth
Woutersen, Tiemen - 2017
This paper investigates whether the utilization of microcredit programs has a significant impact on the income and net worth of the participants. Several micro finance institutes are optimistic on the beneficial effects of microcredit programs. Others describe microcredit with interest rates in...
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