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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...

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Non-Farm Enterprises in Rural Africa : New Empirical Evidence

Nagler, Paula - 2020

Although non-farm enterprises are ubiquitous in rural Sub-Saharan Africa, little is yet known about them. The motivation for households to operate enterprises, how productive they are, and why they exit the market are neglected questions. Drawing on the Living Standards Measurement Study --...

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Population Pressures, Migration, and the Returns to Human Capital and Land : Insights from Indonesia

Liu, Yanyan - 2017

Rapid population growth in many developing countries has raised concerns regarding food security and household welfare. To understand the consequences of population growth in a general equilibrium setting, this paper examines the dynamics of population density and its impacts on household...

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Promoting the Rural Farm and Nonfarm Businesses : Evidence from the Yemen Rural Investment Climate

Sawada, Naotaka - 2017

This study examines the major constraints of rural business entry and performance in Yemen. The Yemen rural investment … climate survey made it possible to analyze rural investment climate constraints for rural businesses. The survey was used to … investigate both farm and nonfarm rural enterprises. The rural investment climate was assessed using a combination of subjective …

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Gender and Rural Non-Farm Entrepreneurship

Rijkers, Bob - 2017

explained by differences in capital intensity, human capital or the local investment climate, nor by increasing returns to scale …

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How Do Women Fare in Rural Non-Farm Economy?

Fuje, Habtamu - 2017

This paper studies the gender-based differences in access to and return from economic activities in the rural non-farm economy (RNFE) using panel datasets from Uganda and Ethiopia. The results show that female-headed households have limited access to paid employment and self-employment in the...

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Labelled Loans, Credit Constraints and Sanitation Investments

Augsburg, Britta - 2019

of labelled micro-credit -- where the loan is linked to the investment only through its label -- will boost human capital … has not received much attention in the literature -- significantly impacts households borrowing and investment behaviour …

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Credit Constraints, Agricultural Productivity, and Rural Nonfarm Participation : Evidence from Rwanda

Ali, Daniel Ayalew - 2017

Although the potentially negative impacts of credit constraints on economic development have long been discussed conceptually, empirical evidence for Africa remains limited. This study uses a direct elicitation approach for a national sample of Rwandan rural households to assess empirically the...

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Estimating the Effects of Credit Constraints on Productivity of Peruvian Agriculture

Woutersen, Tiemen - 2017

This paper proposes an estimator for the endogenous switching regression models with fixed effects. The estimator allows for endogenous selection and for conditional heteroscedasticity in the outcome equation. Applying the estimator to a dataset on the productivity in agriculture substantially...

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Demand Collapse or Credit Crunch to Firms? Evidence from the World Bank's Financial Crisis Survey in Eastern Europe

Nguyen, Ha - 2017

While there is a consensus that the 2008-2009 crisis was triggered by financial market disruptions in the United States, there is little agreement on whether the transmission of the crisis and the subsequent prolonged recession are due to credit factors or to a collapse of demand for goods and...

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