El espacio rural ha sufrido grandes transformaciones en el curso de las últimas décadas, como la disminución de la participación del empleo y el valor agregado agropecuario en el total de la actividad económica, una mayor interdependencia del sector agropecuario con otros sectores como la...

Chapter I: Introduction: Context and Methods -- Chapter II: Literature Review on the Rural Nonagricultural/Nonfarm Sector -- Chapter III: Conceptualizing the Rural Nonfarm Sector: A Critique and Reconstruction -- Chapter IV: The Rural Nonagricultural Sector in Less Developed Countries and India:...

In this paper, we investigate the differences in outcomes (earnings and consumption) between individuals (households) who participate in the non-farm sector and those who do not. We use propensity score matching methods, where we create appropriate comparison groups of individuals and...

The literature on transition economies devotes relatively attention to agriculture and the rural non-farm economy, despite the importance of the sector and its importance to the livelihoods of the majority of the worlds poor. This paper is part of growing volume of valuable empirical work on...

The literature on transition economies devotes relatively attention to agriculture and the rural non-farm economy, despite the importance of the sector and its importance to the livelihoods of the majority of the worlds poor. This paper is part of growing volume of valuable empirical work on...