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| Davis, Benjamin; Handa, Sudhanshu; Stampini, Marco; Winters, Paul C.. |
| This paper aims at evaluating the impact of two different cash transfer programs in rural Mexico - Procampo and Progresa - on total consumption, food consumption and other outcomes like investment, schooling and health care. Progresa is targeted to women, while Procampo goes to farmers, mostly men and many of which are poor. We show that both programs boost consumption. However, they obtain this effect through different channels. Progresa is destined to consumption expenditure directly, while Procampo, which is paid to landholders, boosts investments and needs time to produce its benefits. Furthermore, we separate program from gender effects and show that cash transfer programs targeted to men are beneficial only when the recipients own means of... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Gender effect; Program effect; Rural poverty; Labor and Human Capital. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24836 |
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| Rubio, Gloria M.; Soloaga, Isidro. |
| This paper uses cross-sectional data from Mexico before and after the 1994 peso crisis to analyze rural household vulnerability to macroeconomic shocks. The study suggests that agricultural households are less vulnerable than non-agricultural households. The impacts vary depending on type of production and specialization level. Among agricultural households, those with a higher proportion of corn and bean production for self-consumption fared better than households which engaged in stronger market participation. Although the decline in their monetary income and consumption was more or less similar to that of the more market-oriented agricultural households, they were better able to shield their total income and consumption as well as their food expenditures. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Economic shocks; Household vulnerability; Mexico; Rural poverty; Consumer/Household Economics; Food Security and Poverty. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/12007 |
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| Adenew, Berhanu. |
| This study analyses income, expenditure and food consumption data in Ethiopia to help explains the country's high probability of national food consumption shortfalls. The study argues that to reach the goal of increased national food security, it is necessary to improve market functioning, invest in infrastructure which reduces food transaction costs, provide incentives for increased production through strong support for producers, and, most importantly of all, reform current land tenure arrangements. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Ethiopia; Food insecurity; Rural development; Rural poverty; Food Security and Poverty. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/12012 |
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| Tisdell, Clement A.. |
| Begins by considering trends in the incidence of rural poverty in China, comparing China and India. Although the incidence of rural poverty in China declined generally, such poverty is still a matter for concern, especially now that China has joined the WTO. There is concern about the possible impact of China’s WTO entry on its rural poverty and its ability to adopt policies to address it. Recent international studies of such poverty in China by bodies such as the World Bank, OECD, ADB and IFPRI are outlined and reviewed critically with these economic issues in mind. The most recent study by Anderson and others suggests that China’s agriculture will be forced to undertake more structural adjustment than forecast in earlier studies. The Chinese policies to... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Agriculture; China; Economic; Reform; Rural poverty; WTO; Agricultural Finance; Food Security and Poverty; International Relations/Trade. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/105582 |
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| Manivong, Vongpaphane; Cramb, Rob A.; Newby, Jonathan C.. |
| Despite being a low‐income, agriculture‐based country with a subsistence‐orientation, Laos is in the early stages of a major economic transformation whereby rural households have been experiencing rapid change in their farming and livelihood systems. Some households have engaged in what the World Bank classifies as market‐oriented farming while other households have adopted labour‐oriented or migration‐oriented livelihood strategies. This paper explores how rural households in six villages in the lowlands of Champasak Province in southern Laos make a living. These villages vary in their access to irrigation and to markets. Nevertheless, in all villages, long‐term migration of younger household members to neighbouring Thailand has come to play a large role... |
| Tipo: Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Migration; Remittances; Rice intensification; Livelihood strategy; Rural poverty; Laos; Labor and Human Capital. |
| Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/124337 |
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| Minot, Nicholas. |
| In Tanzania, as in many other developing countries, the conventional wisdom is that economic reforms may have stimulated economic growth, but that the benefits of this growth have been uneven, favoring urban households and farmers with good market access. This idea, although quite plausible, has rarely been tested empirically. In this paper, we develop a new approach to measuring trends in poverty and apply it to Tanzania in order to explore the distributional aspects of economic growth and the relationship between rural poverty and market access. We find that, between 1991 and 2003, a period of extensive economic reforms, the overall rate of poverty fell about 9 percentage points. The degree of poverty reduction was similar between rural and urban areas,... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Tanzania; Poverty; Market access; Agricultural development; Rural areas; Economic reform; Measurement; Rural poverty; International Development; I32; O18; O55; Q13; R11. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/59829 |
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| Davis, Junior. |
| This article reviews key conceptual issues related to the development of the rural non-farm economy (RNFE) in a transition context and analyses available empirical evidence on the role of RNFE during recovery from the transition recession. Growth in the RNFE in the transition countries took place during the recession transition, which shows that it may be distress driven, but the paper explores other factors which may be driving the RNFE. It looks at the RNFE in light of the factors driving income growth and inequality, i.e. endowments and institutions. It concludes that, although not uniform across transition countries, the RNFE should be seen as a component of a growth strategy rather than as a temporary “refuge” or survival one. The patterns of growth... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Transition economies; Rural livelihoods; Rural non-farm economy; Rural poverty; Rural development; Community/Rural/Urban Development. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/112606 |
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| Li, Cuijin. |
| Literatures about the relationship between human capital investment and rural poverty are reviewed. According to the time-series data from 1990 to 2007, VAR model and variance research are used to study the relationship between household human capital investment and rural poverty. Results shows that there is long-run equilibrium relationship between household capital investment and rural poverty. Educational investment and health investment have significant impacts on the alleviation of rural poverty; while migration investment does not have significant impact on the alleviation of rural poverty. Among the factors causing poverty fluctuations, educational investment has greater impacts on poverty fluctuations than health investment in the short run, but... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Human capital investment; Rural poverty; VAR model; China; Agribusiness. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/101898 |
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| Fan, Shenggen; Gulati, Ashok; Thorat, Sukhadeo. |
| This paper reviews the trends in government subsidies and investments in and for Indian agriculture; develops a conceptual framework and model to assess the impact of various subsidies and investments on agricultural growth and poverty reduction; and, presents several reform options with regard to reprioritizing government spending and improving institutions and governance. There are three major findings. First, initial subsidies in credit, fertilizer, and irrigation have been crucial for small farmers to adopt new technologies. Small farms are often losers in the initial adoption stage of a new technology since prices of the agricultural products are typically being pushed down by greater supply of products from large farms, which adopted the new... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Rural poverty; Agricultural growth; Investment; Subsidies; India; International Development. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/42397 |
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