Africa is not only the poorest and most rural continent, it is also the most youthful continent in terms of population … understanding of rural non-farm entrepreneurship, particularly with regard to the role of young adults in this sector. This paper … the contribution they make to rural household income, the (ii) determinants of enterprise operation, and (iii) labor …

We are the first to provide a comparative empirical analysis of non-farm entrepreneurship in rural Africa, using the … World Bank's unique LSMSISA dataset. This dataset covers six countries over the period 2005 to 2012. We find that rural … variables show consistency across the sample, we also find much heterogeneity, suggesting that rural entrepreneurship is also a …

Although non-farm enterprises are ubiquitous in rural Sub-Saharan Africa, little is yet known about their productivity …, Malawi, Nigeria, and Uganda. Using the World Bank's LSMS-ISA database, we find that rural enterprises are on average less …, and location matter for labor productivity in rural Africa, and that policy decisions tackling the shortcomings could …

put on the effects of internal, rural-urban migration (and its concomitant remittances). This paper analyses the net … effects of remittances from internal, rural-urban migrants on selfemployment and on investments of the left-behind households … by using a rich household level panel data set from Thailand and Vietnam. The findings indicate that individuals from …

Since the global food price crisis between 2007 and 2008, governments in developing countries such as Vietnam have paid … more attention to food security issues. The government of Vietnam has issued policies to sustain rice land and imposed … consolidation and examine the impacts of this participation on crop production costs, poverty, and rural transformation. Our results …

The vast majority of households in rural Viet Nam undertake agricultural activities and for many this is their main …

While much research on China has focused on rural to urban migration and transitions of rural households away from … agriculture, little is known about the changes within the rural agricultural sector. Yet, the agricultural sector continues to …

Poverty remains a substantial threat in rural areas of many developing countries, and solving this problem requires an … agricultural commercialization on the capability of rural households to accumulate assets and on structural and multidimensional … poverty. A longitudinal dataset of around 2000 households with a total of 9781 observations from five rural surveys undertaken …