This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the constraints facing the development of rural non-farm enterprises in Indonesia. Recent years have seen a substantial effort by the Indonesian government to improve the investment climate. To date, much of this effort has focused on the...

Most poor people in developing countries still live in rural areas and are primarily engaged in low productivity farming activities. Thus pathways out of poverty are likely to be strongly connected to productivity increases in the rural economy, whether they are realised in farming, rural...

Agricultural demand linkages and growth multipliers in rural Indonesia / Asep Suryahadi ... [et al.] -- Trends and contrainsts associated with labour faced by non-farm enterprises / Armida S. Alisjahbana and Chris Manning -- The constraints in accessing credit faced by rural non-farm enterprises...

Introduction and Overview / Abdul Raufu Mustapha, Kate Meagher and Nicholas Awortwi -- Political Economy and Settlements in Development and Employment Policies in Ethiopia / Assefa Admassie, Kassahun Berhanu Alemu and Mesfin Gebremichael -- Political Economy of Agriculture and Unemployment in...

Most poor people in developing countries still live in rural areas and are primarily engaged in low productivity farming activities. Thus pathways out of poverty are likely to be strongly connected to productivity increases in the rural economy, whether they are realised in farming, rural...