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Journal articles, 2007
This paper contributes to the understanding of the dynamics of developing country rural labour markets by re-evaluating the available evidence on the levels and composition of income sources adopted by rural households in order to...
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Journal articles, 2007
The paper discusses the economic effects of misallocation of public expenditures in favor of private goods rather than public goods. It first lays out certain key hypotheses regarding the consequences of the apparent public sector...
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Journal articles, 2007
The paper summarizes the key routes through which internal and international migration impact rural development and some of the evidence pertaining to these effects in low income countries. It concludes that, although the study of...
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Journal articles, 2007
This paper explores a territorial approach to rural development in Latin America. It first reviews evidence that progress in rural social development has not been accompanied by reductions in income poverty and inequality. It then...
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ESA Working Paper 07-02
Working paper, 2007
This paper examines the relationship between rurality and poverty, and the role the agricultural sector can play in rural development, poverty reduction, and overall development. The historical views regarding the role of the primary sector...
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Information product, 2007
All over the world, unequal access to power and resources is central to discrimination against women in the community, market, state and even within their own households.
Correcting this inequality is vital to realize women’s...
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Lessons learned in Brazil
Manual/guidelines, 2007
One-third of Brazil’s export earnings come from agriculture, yet in 2004, 72 million of its 185 million residents were affected by food insecurity (Institute of Geography and Statistics). Only when this situation became unacceptable to...
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Country case study, 2007
Since the onset of the Israeli occupation in 1967, the economy of the West Bank and Gaza
Strip (WBGS) has been an “income economy” rather than a “production economy”—making
the WBGS extremely vulnerable to the...
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ESA Working Paper 07-01
Working paper, 2007
In this paper we examine the effects of the composition (between private and public goods) of government expenditures in the rural world, and the effect that corruption has in the political game that determines these...
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ESA Working Paper 06-17
Working paper, 2006
Improving agricultural productivity and farm level resilience to agricultural production shocks is a critical component of reducing poverty and improving household food security throughout the developing world, and particularly in Ethiopia which is among the...
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