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Agricultural and rural transformations in Asian development : past trends and future challenges

Vos, Rob - 2018

Over the past sixty years, most Asian countries have undergone relatively rapid agricultural transformations that helped jumpstart broader economic development. However, the changes have differed markedly in nature and speed across countries of the region. In much of East and Southeast Asia, the...

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Welfare effects of vegetable commercializatino : evidence from smallhoder producers in Kenya

Muriithi, Beatrice W.; Matz, Julia Anna - 2014

We investigate the impact of smallholder vegetable commercialization through the export and domestic market channels on household income and assets in Kenya. We use a survey panel dataset, which allows us to control for unobserved heterogeneity across households, and show that the...

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Wealth distribution, peasant production and poverty traps in African smallholder agriculture

Hoogeveen, Johannes - 1999

A model is developed for peasant households in land abundant areas who choose between two technologies for land preparation: a manual one and one using draught animals. For draught a minimum number of animals is required so that a technological non convexity exists. It follows that certain...

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Poverty in Rural Cambodia: The Differentiated Impact of Linkages, Inputs and Access to Land

Engvall, Anders; Sjöberg, Örjan; Sjöholm, Fredrik - 2007

Cambodia has been growing rapidly over the past few years but still remains one of the poorest countries in East Asia. In particular, poverty is widespread in rural Cambodia. This paper examines rural poverty in Cambodia with a view to furthering our understanding of the factors that might...

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Income convergence and the flow out of poverty in India, 1994 - 2005

Quiroga, Paola Andrea Barrientos; Blunch, Niels-Hugo; … - 2015

This paper explores the dynamics of income and poverty of rural Indian households, 1994-2005. The estimation strategy consists of convergence analysis to test whether poor households are catching-up in terms of income, followed by transition analysis to test whether poor households are more...

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Income Convergence and the Flow Out of Poverty in India, 1994-2005

Barrientos Quiroga, Paola - 2015

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Purchasing Power Parity Exchange Rates from Household Survey Data : India and Indonesia

Deaton, Angus; Friedman, Jed; Alatas, Vivi - 2004

calculates multilateral price indexes for the states and sectors of India, as well as PPPs for rural and urban Indonesia together … with rural and urban India. PPPs for the poor are distinguished from general PPPs. The internal PPPs for India are not very … different from previous estimates based on bilateral comparisons, but the estimated PPP between India and Indonesia is very …

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Chapter 5. Population, Poverty, and the Natural Environment

Dasgupta, Partha - In: Handbook of environmental economics : volume 1, …, (pp. 191-247). 2003

This chapter studies the interface in poor countries of population growth, rural poverty, and deterioration of the local natural-resource base, a subject that has been much neglected by modern demographers and development economists. The motivations for procreation in rural communities of the...

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Agricultural Productivity Shocks and Poverty in India : The Short- and Long-Term Effects of Monsoon Rainfall

Brey, Björn - 2019

This paper examines the dynamic effects of monsoon rainfall shocks on yield, wages, and prices in the Indian agricultural sector. We distinguish between positive and negative rainfall shocks and explicitly consider their spatial dimension (local/regional). We find that particularly negative...

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Agricultural productivity shocks and poverty in India : the short- and long-term effects of monsoon rainfall

Brey, Björn; Hertweck, Matthias S. - 2019

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