How Special Are Rural Areas? The Economic Implications of Location for Rural Development

By S. Wiggins, S. Proctor. 2001

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics

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Citations in the corpus

• THE SCOPE FOR IMPROVING RURAL LIVELIHOODS THROUGH NON-TIMBER FOREST PRODUCTS: AN EVOLVING RESEARCH AGENDA (2005, background): “Notably the areas closer to roads and markets benefit from these new opportunities, which implies that location matters when it comes to the role that NTFPs can play in people’s livelihoods (cf. McDowell and De Haan, 1997, Wiggins and Proctor, 2001).”
• Socio-ecological niche: a conceptual framework for integration of legumes in smallholder farming systems (2006, background): “Wiggins and Proctor (2001) view rural areas as consisting of ‘peri-urban zones’, ‘the (middle) countryside’, and ‘remote rural areas’.”