activities, and labor allocation between own farming and wage labor in agriculture. To guide the empirical work, this paper … a favorable rainfall shock on agricultural wages, labor supply to market work, and per capita household expenditure. The …

from 2000 to 2010. Over the same period, the share of hired labor in agriculture decreased from 19.4 percent to 15 … capita household expenditure and labor supplied to market activities (including own farming). The effect on hired labor is … interpreted by some as evidence of adverse effects on poverty and inequality. The theoretical analysis, however, shows that the …

The role of international labour migration in processes leading to the (re)production of rural poverty in the rural … foreign labour migration, as a 'window' to understand the processes shaping how migration effects poverty. The paper analyses … how migration generates outcomes across the domains of rural people's changing relationship to land and agriculture, their …