An evaluation was made of the performance of agricultural marketing cooperatives within the context of rural development strategies in the Philippines and Indonesia. It was also recognized that cooperatives in LDC's could act as an important institutional mechanism for improving the coordination...

Rural development programmes may facilitate the off-farm employment of low-income farm families and provide additional public suppon beyond traditional US farm income and price support programmes. To examine the implications of alternative rural development strategies for low-income farmers,...

The purpose of this paper is to test specific hypotheses about the detenninants of temporary ruralto- urban migration (circulation) by male heads of households for the putpose of engaging in wage employmenL Data from a sample of 145 rural households located in the central Mexican highlands are...