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Provedor de dados: 	31	
País: 	United States	
Título: 	Nonfarm Employment and Poverty Reduction in Rural Ghana: A Propensity-Score Matching Analysis	
Autores: 	Owusu,   Victor; Abdulai,   Awudu.	
Data: 	2009-06-19	
Ano: 	2009	
Palavras-chave: 	Non-farm employment; Poverty; Matching; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Consumer/Household Economics; Food Security and Poverty; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods.	
Resumo: 	This article investigates the impact of nonfarm employment on farm household income and way out of poverty, using farm household data from Brong-Ahafo region of Ghana. A propensity score matching model is used to evaluate the impact participating in both wage and self-employment. Separate estimates are also provided for males and females. The results from the study show that nonfarm employment has a positive and robust effect on farm household income and a negative and significant effect on the likelihood of being poor. Self-employment was found to have much higher impacts than wage employment, reflecting the fact that most employment opportunities in the rural areas are in the former sector.	
Tipo: 	Conference Paper or Presentation	
Idioma: 	Inglês	
Identificador: 	http://purl.umn.edu/51363	
Relação: 	International Association of Agricultural Economists&gt;2009 Conference, August 16-22, 2009, Beijing, China

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