India. This paper analyzes the determinants of participation in nonfarm activities and of nonfarm incomes across rural …Nonfarm activities generate on average about 60 percent of rural households? incomes in the eastern Himalayan region of … implications of the analytical framework. We conduct an empirical inquiry that reveals that education plays a major role in …

India. This paper analyzes the determinants of participation in nonfarm activities and of nonfarm incomes across rural …Nonfarm activities generate on average about 60 percent of rural households? incomes in the eastern Himalayan region of … implications of the analytical framework. We conduct an empirical inquiry that reveals that education plays a major role in …

neither of higher nor vocational education …

. Remittances have been utilized for meeting consumption needs, improved livelihood, better education to children and better health …

more educated children, whose education is facilitated by an increase in farm income brought about by the spread of modern …

between households in different income brackets at the district level for India, and the radiance-calibrated nighttime image … of 2004. Besides the radiance-calibrated data of 2004, estimates of household incomes and number of households in … different income brackets, made by Indicus Analytics (specialized economic research firm, based in New Delhi, India) were used …

human development (HD) in India through construction of alternate HD indices for the districts of India. The association …

This paper analyzes the determinants of participation in nonfarm activities and of nonfarm incomes across rural … households. A unique data set collected in the Himalayan region of India allows us to deal with the heterogeneity of rural …