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Brokering development? : the private sector and unalleviated poverty in Tanzania's agricultural growth corridors
Ires, Idil - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012504842
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Moving mud, shifting soil : change and development in wage labour livelihoods in Uttar Pradesh, India
Ruthven, Orlanda (contributor); Kumar, Sushil (contributor) - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001715158
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A Game Theoretic Approach to Analyse Cooperation between Rural Households in Northern Nigeria
Gerichhausen, M.; Berkhout, Ezra D.; Hamers, H.J.M; … - African Association of Agricultural Economists - AAAE - 2008
To improve the livelihood of the poor in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) much attention has been paid to the development of … new agricultural technologies. We hypothesize that farmers can also improve their livelihood through cooperation. Partial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068371
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Farm Income Stabilization: A Central Goal for American and European Policies
Tyner, Wallace E.; Jacquet, Florence; Gray, Allan W. - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2005
The central thesis developed in this paper is that snapshot views of the global measures of agricultural support mask what is really happening in U.S. and E.U. agricultural policies. We demonstrate that American and European farmers are effectively protected from market risk by these policies....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005803234
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Non-farm employment and labor market in rural Vietnam : trends and determinants
Nguyen, Trung Hung - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012427426
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Linkages between Farm and Non-Farm Sectors at the Household Level in Rural Ghana A consistent stochastic distance function approach
Anríquez, Gustavo; Daidone, Silvio - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2008
In the light of an expanding rural non-farm (RNF) sector in developing rural economies, this paper explores the effects of this expansion within the household. Using rural Ghana as a case study this paper explores if the RNF economy allows for economies of diversification within farms; how input...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005064793
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Non-farm diversification and rural poverty decline: a perspective from Indian sample survey and village study data
Himanshu, Himanshu; Lanjouw, Peter; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
This paper studies the evolution of the rural non-farm sector in India and its contribution to the decline of poverty. It scrutinizes evidence from a series of nationally representative sample surveys and confronts findings from these sources against the experience of poverty decline in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745048
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Providing Microfinance and Social Space to Empower Adolescent Girls: An Evaluation of BRAC’s ELA Centres
Shahnaz, Rizwana; Karim, Raihana - eSocialSciences - 2010
social interventions in 2005 by setting up ELA (Employment and Livelihood for Adolescents) Centres for the ELA microfinance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008468424
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Migration, risk and livelihoods: A Chinese case
Zhang, Heather Xiaoquan - 2010
. Market, while bringing diverse livelihood opportunities to rural people, has simultaneously distributed risks, and the … combined with qualitative longitudinal research methodology (or 'extended case method') to delineate a livelihood trajectory of … this family, and explore the relationships between livelihood, risk, social networks, agency and public policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010304475
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Persons with Disability (PWDs) in Rural Philippines: Results from the 2010 Field Survey in Rosario, Batangas
Tabuga, Aubrey D.; Mina, Christian D.; Reyes, Celia M.; … - 2011
In an effort to complement the 2008 disability survey conducted in Metro Manila, the University of Tokyo and the Philippine Institute for Development Studies collaborated to undertake a similar study in a rural area. The survey was conducted in Rosario, Batangas in 2010, where 106 PWDs from 31...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421212