What drives income diversification among rural households in developing countries? A large literature has examined … whether household income diversification is a means of survival or a means of accumulation, which has so far remained … inconclusive. This paper attempts to evaluate which explanation of household income diversification – diversification as survival …

What drives livelihood diversification among predominantly rural households in developing countries and how can welfare …-enhancing patterns be established and sustained in the long run? A large literature has focused on whether income diversification is a … diversification for a panel of households in Tanzania from the 1990s-the Kagera Health and Development Survey-with a focus on whether …

Between 2004/2005 and 2009/2010 there was a sharp fall in female labor force participation (LFP) in rural India. Why …

of methodological approaches - factor content, growth accounting and econometric modelling. We also compare India …

The caste system - a system of elaborately stratified social hierarchy - distinguishes India from most other societies … India, with Dalits or Scheduled Castes (SC) clustered in occupations that were the least well paid and most degrading in … terms of manual labour. Along with the Scheduled Tribes (STs), the SCs have the highest incidence of poverty in India, with …

The caste system - a system of elaborately stratified social hierarchy - distinguishes India from most other societies … India, with Dalits or Scheduled Castes (SC) clustered in occupations that were the least well paid and most degrading in … terms of manual labour. Along with the Scheduled Tribes (STs), the SCs have the highest incidence of poverty in India, with …