The poverty incidence among the rural population in Latin America is above 50 percent. Peru mimics the Latin American picture fairly well, with a rural poverty of about 65 percent. The rural nonfarm sector has gained increasing attention lately, considered as having the potential to absorb a...

The purpose of the Development Policy Evaluation Model (DEVPEM) is to provide an appropriate modelling structure for analysing the welfare and distributional implications of alternative agricultural policies in developing countries. The aim of the model is to provide illustrative results that...

This paper analyses the role of government effectiveness in the determination of informal employment. A theoretical model is developed, in which local governance and worker skill level are assumed to influence the decision of the worker whether to seek employment in the formal or informal...