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What Stayers Do? Capital Endowments and On-Farm Transitions in Rural China
Wang, Hao; Fidrmuc, Jan; Luo, Qi; Luo, Mingzhong - 2018
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011932056
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What Stayers Do? Capital Endowments and On-Farm Transitions in Rural China
Wang, Hao - 2019
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892049
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Exploring the determinants of on-farm transitions : evidence from rural China
Wang, Hao; Fidrmuc, Jan; Luo, Qi; Luo, Mingzhong - In: Applied economics 52 (2020) 52, pp. 5667-5686
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Family farm : solution for sustainable development of rural area
Dumitru, Eduard Alexandru; Petre, Laurenţiu Ionuţ - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : realities and …, (pp. 200-208). 2021
At present, in Romania there is no clear definition of the concept of family farm, and at the level of the European Union, the definition of family farms differs significantly depending on the characteristics of each country. At the same time, there is no classification of these types of farms,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013189164
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The relation between agricultural and non-agricultural economic development : technical report on an empirical analysis of European regions
Margarian, Anne - 2012
Support of agriculture is justified, among others, by its contribution to rural economic development. Nevertheless, the … relation between agricultural and general economic development may be ambiguous. On the one side, agriculture may affect other … of common factors, specifically labour, by agriculture and other sectors. Under these circumstances, support of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530353
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The Idea of a Rural Informal Economy
Conroy, John D. - 2013
The purpose of this paper is to explore the notion of economic informality and its application in the rural context of developing and transitional economies, applying Keith Hart's (1987) notion of informality as a 'remedial concept'. Some remedy is needed to make sense of the many 'palpable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013078973
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Rural poverty alleviation through non-farm income in transition economies
Knüpfer, Judith; Buchenrieder, Gertrud - 2001
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Households typology for relating social diversity and technical change. The example of rural households in the Khambashe area of the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa.
Laurent, Catherine; van Rooyen, Johan; Madikizela, Patrick - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998
Various South African policy statements and strategy proposals argue that farmer focused planning and farming systems research approaches are required to develop policies, strategies and project activities to serve farmers efficiently. Then, the question is how to give a practical content to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008743002
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Agricultural Credit and Economic Growth in Rural Areas
Nadolnyak, Denis A. - 2017
In this paper, we set out to establish if there is a link between finance and economic growth in rural areas. In particular, we evaluate the relation between credit by major lenders in rural areas - commercial banks and Farm Credit System institutions - and economic growth for the period...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012941922
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Of bulls and bulbs : aspirations and perceptions of rural youth in Zambia
Daum, Thomas - 2018
During the last years, policymakers and development-practitioners focused heavily on making farming more attractive for the rural youth in Africa. To reach this goal, different actions are proposed, often emphasizing the need for modern farming and information and communication technologies....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011875947