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Non-Farm Entrepreneurship in Rural Africa: Patterns and Determinants

Nagler, Paula; Naudé, Wim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We are the first to provide a comparative empirical analysis of non-farm entrepreneurship in rural Africa, using the World Bank's unique LSMSISA dataset. This dataset covers six countries over the period 2005 to 2012. We find that rural enterprises tend to be small, informal household...

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Labor Productivity in Rural African Enterprises: Empirical Evidence from the LSMS-ISA

Nagler, Paula; Naudé, Wim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Although non-farm enterprises are ubiquitous in rural Sub-Saharan Africa, little is yet known about their productivity. In this paper we contribute to filling this gap by providing estimates of labor productivity in enterprises for Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, and Uganda. Using the World Bank's...

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Young Entrepreneurs in Rural Africa: Prevalence, Determinants, Productivity

Nagler, Paula; Naudé, Wim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Africa is not only the poorest and most rural continent, it is also the most youthful continent in terms of population. Given the large number of young job seekers that will enter the labor market over the next decade, we need a better understanding of rural non-farm entrepreneurship,...

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Income Diversification and Poverty in a Growing Agricultural Economy: The Case of Ghana

Lay, Jann; Schüler, Dana - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008

This paper analyses changes in income portfolios of rural households and its determinants for the case of Ghana in the 1990s. Our analysis shows that, contrary to common beliefs, rural Ghana has seen major economic transformation, as households increasingly diversify their livelihoods by both...

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Boda Bodas Rule: Non-agricultural Activities and Their Inequality Implications in Western Kenya

Lay, Jann; M'Mukaria, George Michuki; Mahmoud, Toman Omar - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007

-led. Survival-led diversification would decrease inequality by increasing the incomes of poorer households and thus reduce poverty …. By contrast, opportunity-led diversification would increase inequality and have a minor effect on poverty, as it tends to … diversification strategies. Yet, the poverty and inequality implications differ somewhat from our expectations. Our findings indicate …

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Boda-bodas rule: Non-agricultural activities and their inequality implications in Western Kenya

Lay, Jann; M'Mukaria, George Michuki; Omar Mahmoud, Toman - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007

the population and would reduce poverty. Opportunity-led diversification, by contrast, would increase inequality and have … a minor effect on poverty, as it tends to be confined to non-poor households. Using data from a household survey … opportunity-led diversification. Yet, the poverty and inequality implications of the differently motivated diversification …

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Rural Households in a Changing Climate

Baez, Javier E.; Kronick, Dorothy; Mason, Andrew D. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper argues that climate change poses two distinct, if related, sets of challenges for poor rural households: challenges related to the increasing frequency and severity of weather shocks and challenges related to long-term shifts in temperature, rainfall patterns, water availability, and...

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Is Women's Ownership of Land a Panacea in Developing Countries? Evidence from Land-Owning Farm Households in Malawi

Bhaumik, Sumon K.; Dimova, Ralitza; Gang, Ira N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Our analysis of a rich representative household survey for Malawi, where patrilineal and matrilineal institutions coexist, suggests that (a) in matrilineal societies the likelihood of cash crop cultivation by a household increases with the extent of land owned (or de facto controlled) by males,...

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Rural Welfare Implications of Large-scale Land Acquisitions in Africa: A Theoretical Framework

Kleemann, Linda; Thiele, Rainer - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

Large-scale agricultural land acquisitions might entail substantial welfare implications for the affected rural population. Whether the impacts are indeed as devastating as the popular notion of "land grabs" would suggest depends on a number of factors, including the size of compensation...

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Shadow vs. market prices in explaining land allocation: Subsistence maize cultivation in rural Mexico

Arslan, Aslihan - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008

Economic models of land allocation may lead to expectations for farmer response that “surprisingly" do not materialize, if market prices fail to reflect the value of farmers' product. “Shadow prices" rather than market prices explain resource allocation better for farmers who attach...

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