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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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566206

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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Designing Impact Evaluations for Agricultural Projects

Maffioli, Alessandro; Winters, Paul; Salazar, Lina - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010

The purpose of this guideline is to provide suggestions on designing impact evaluations for agricultural projects, particularly projects that directly target farmers, and seek to improve agricultural production, productivity and profitability. Specific issues in evaluating agricultural projects...

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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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Farmers' Subjective Valuation of Subsistence Crops: The Case of Traditional Maize in Mexico

Arslan, Aslihan; Taylor, J. Edward - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008

Shadow prices guide farmers' resource allocations, but for subsistence farmers growing traditional crops, shadow prices may bear little relationship with market prices. We econometrically estimate shadow prices of maize using data from a nationally representative survey of rural households in...

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Information and Communication Technologies, Agricultural Profitability, and Child Labor in Rural Peru

Beuermann, Diether W. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011

We estimate the impact of access to information and communication technologies on agricultural profitability and child labor among isolated villages in rural Peru. We exploit an intervention that provided at least one public (satellite) payphone to 6,509 rural villages that did not previously...

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Wage Gaps and Development; Lessons From U.S. History

Mourmouras, Alex; Rangazas, Peter - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

During the course of development, wages and labor productivity are much higher in the nonfarm sectors of the economy than in agriculture. In this paper, we examine the sources and consequences of wage and productivity gaps in the U.S. from 1800 to 2000. We build a quantitative general...

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Lessons Learned in Rural Finance: The Experience of the Inter-American Development Bank

Wenner, Mark D. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002

This paper reviews the Bank's lending experience in rural finance and extracts the lessons learned from that experience. It is based on a review of project documents, evaluation reports, and interviews. A sample of 27 projects were studied in detail. Although the review of IDB projects is far...

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