The nonfarm activities in rural Ethiopia are heterogeneous. Some activities yield very high returns while others pay less than farm wage employment. This study examines the dynamics between 1999 and 2004. We find that access to saving and credit is an important factor for transition into...

There is a renewed interest in whether land reforms can contribute to market development in Africa and whether land reforms can be pro-poor. This paper uses unique household panel data from Tigray region in Ethiopia to assess the impact of the 1998 low-cost land registration and certification...

This paper assesses the implications of caste discrimination and past land reforms on the land rental market performance, land productivity and land use intensity in Nepal. The most severely discriminated group in the caste system is the Dalits, the so-called "untouchables". Dalits faced...