creates jobs, draws the majority into the economic and social mainstream, and continuously reduces mass poverty. Employment … conditions in Philippine rural labor markets and agriculture can be characterized as casual or informal, with low skill … agricultural livelihood. Development involves the change in economic structure, anchored on productivity growth in agriculture …

This paper attempts to have an examination of the Rural Non -Farm Employment situation in India and Thailand over the … last three decades. The important findings of this study are: (a) Both in India and Thailand, there has been employment … variation with regard to the incidence of rural non-farm employment in both Thailand and India. (c) There is a gender bias with …

in a technologically advanced region with developed surface irrigation. Developed agriculture would also be linked … favourably with non farm employment avenues. This would be reflected in the earnings in farm and non-farm jobs and overall …