Nonfarm activities generate on average about 60 percent of rural households incomes in the Himalayas. 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 nonfarm activities by …

Nonfarm activities generate on average about 60 percent of rural households' incomes in the Himalayas. 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 nonfarm activities by …

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

Economic hardship, agricultural policy reform and price developments have adversely affected incomes from agricultural …

Economic hardship, agricultural policy reform and price developments have adversely affected incomes from agricultural …

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

states and for urban and rural India (NFHS-2, 1998/9), we select our sample drawing information from the household data set …

an empirical household survey. Results show a high dependency on non-farm incomes; smaller farms particularly benefit …