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Rural Nonfarm Employment and Incomes in the Eastern Himalayas
Rahut, Dil Bahadur; Micevska, Maja B. - 2007
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 …
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Subsistence and semi-subsistence farming in selected EU new member states
Davidova, Sophia; Fredriksson, Lena; Bailey, Alastair - 2009
Factor and cluster analysis are used to analyse the attitudes and perceptions of agricultural households in five EU New Member States towards farming, commercialisation, and barriers to and drivers for an increased integration in agricultural markets. The contribution of unsold output to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277822
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Household income dynamics in rural China
Jalan, Jyotsna; Ravallion, Martin - 2002
It is well known in theory that certain forms of non-linear dynamics in household incomes can yield poverty traps and … test for non-linearity in the dynamics of household expenditures and incomes using panel data for rural south-west China … current inequality reduces growth in mean incomes. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279090
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Externalities in rural development: Evidence for China
Ravallion, Martin - 2003
The paper tests for external effects of local economic activity on consumption and income growth at the farm household level using panel data from four provinces of post-reform rural China. The tests allow for nonstationary fixed effects in the consumption growth process. Evidence is found of...
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Incentives to labour migration and agricultural productivity: The Bayesian perspective
Djuikom, Marie Albertine - 2018
Understanding how internal labour migration affects the agricultural sector is important for all developing countries whose markets do not work well or are non-existent. In fact, even if the movement out of the agricultural sector can be viewed as a process to reach development for many African...
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Somewhere in between towns, markets, and neighbors: Agricultural transition in the rural-urban interface of Bangalore, India
Steinhübel, Linda - 2018
household survey conducted in the rural-urban interface of Bangalore, India. In our analysis we follow a polycentric perspective …
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Multinational companies: Can they foster well-being in the eyes of the poor? Results from an empirical case study
Strotmann, Harald; Volkert, Jürgen; Schmidt, Melinda - In: International Journal of Corporate Social … 4 (2019) 1, pp. 1-14
the reported well-being of poor villagers in rural India. For the case of the Bayer Crop Science Model Village Project …
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Income convergence, migration and geography: Distribution analysis of regions in Norway
Stokke, Hildegunn; Rattso, Jorn - 2010
Empirical evidence about income convergence among regions and countries is inconclusive and it is necessary to clarify the economic and institutional conditions for convergence. We investigate movements in the income distribution among regions in an integrated market with high mobility of labor,...
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The Effect of Migration on Income Convergence: Meta-Analytic Evidence
Ozgen, Ceren; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2009
Using meta-analytical techniques, we focus on 11 studies that explicitly measure the effect of a net migration variable in neoclassical convergence models and derive 57 comparable effect sizes. The data suggest that an increase in the net migration rate of one percentage point increases on...
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Economic Challenges of Lagging Regions II: Recent Structural Reforms, Outstanding Needs and Governance Issues
Fornoni, Ruggero; Greunz, Lydia; Rabemiafara, Nirina; … - 2017
This report is concerned with analysing, for eight EU Member States with lagging regions, the main structural reforms carried out over the past five to ten years, essentially those which are relevant for the European Structural and Investment Funds. Furthermore it provides an overview of the...
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