Nonfarm activities generate on average about 60 percent of rural households' incomes in the Himalayas. This paper … inquiry that reveals that education plays a major role in accessing more remunerative nonfarm employment. Other household …

, and psychosocial dimensions, but find evidence that it helped to diversify household incomes into these skill areas …

resulting poverty and inequality implications. The results show that only rich households are able to overcome the entry … trafficking. Based on a household survey on human trafficking from Belarus, Bulgaria, Moldova, Romania and Ukraine, the analysis …

of income derived from non-agricultural activities and household wealth as well as total household income. Survival …-led engagement in non-agricultural activities would be inequality-decreasing through increasing the incomes of the poorer parts of … the population and would reduce poverty. Opportunity-led diversification, by contrast, would increase inequality and have …

-led. Survival-led diversification would decrease inequality by increasing the incomes of poorer households and thus reduce poverty …. By contrast, opportunity-led diversification would increase inequality and have a minor effect on poverty, as it tends to … diversification strategies. Yet, the poverty and inequality implications differ somewhat from our expectations. Our findings indicate …

-led. Survival-led diversification would decrease inequality by increasing the incomes of poorer households and thus reduce poverty …. By contrast, opportunity-led diversification would increase inequality and have a minor effect on poverty, as it tends to … diversification strategies. Yet, the poverty and inequality implications differ somewhat from our expectations. Our findings indicate …

This paper depicts the trend of regional inequality in rural China for the period 1985-2002. The total inequality is … west). A regression-based accounting framework is then used to explore root sources of the rising inequality. Policy …