Intersectoral Transfer, Growth, and Inequality in Rural Ecuador

By C. Elbers, Peter Lanjouw. 2001

161 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Antonio Estache
2. B. Davis
3. Peter Lanjouw
4. P. Winters
5. J. Lanjouw
6. A. de Janvry
7. E. Sadoulet
8. C. Elbers

In Safety Research

1. Peter Lanjouw
2. Antonio Estache
3. J. Lanjouw
4. P. Winters
5. B. Davis
6. C. Elbers
7. K. Stamoulis
8. A. Zezza

In Sociology and Political Science

1. B. Davis
2. P. Winters
3. Peter Lanjouw
4. Antonio Estache
5. J. Lanjouw
6. A. de Janvry
7. E. Sadoulet
8. Rinku Murgai

Citations in the corpus

• Infrastructure: A survey of recent and upcoming issues (2006, background): “19 Diversification of income sources is a key component of rural poverty reduction strategies, and one that depends on infrastructure to be effective (see Ellis (1998) for a survey).”
• Assets, Activities and Rural Income Generation: Evidence from a Multicountry Analysis (2009, background): “Evidence for rural non-agricultural self employment is mixed: a few studies—Tanzania (Lanjouw et al., 2001), Chile (Berdegue et al., 2001), Ecuador (Elbers & Lanjouw, 2001), Mexico (Taylor & Yunez-Naude, 2000), China (de Janvry et al., 2005)—show a positive relationship between education and partici”
• Micro-Level Estimation of Welfare (2002, result): “For many questions, intra-regional cross-town analysis could considerably enrich the existing results of cross-country studies (see, Elbers and Lanjouw, 2001).”
• The rural non-farm sector: issues and evidence from developing countries (2001, background): “In a decomposition of income inequality by factor components for Ecuador as a whole, Elbers and Lanjouw (2001) finds that a marginal scaling-up of rural non-agricultural incomes is inequality reducing, although the elasticity is small.”
• The Role of Non-Farm Incomes in Reducing Rural Poverty and Inequality in China (2005, background): “…by the socialist price system, which over-priced manufactured products, creating high profitability 1 See the results obtained by Barham and Boucher (1998), Elbers and Lanjouw (2001), Escobal (2001), Khan and Riskin (2001), Leones and Feldman (1998), Reardon and Taylor (1996), and Shand (1987).”
• Have Economic Growth And Institutional Quality Contributed To Poverty And Inequality Reduction In Asia (2013, background): “Elbers and Lanjouw [37] sought to understand the distributional consequences of nonfarm sector growth in rural areas of Ecuador.”
• A Cross-Country Comparison of Rural Income Generating Activities (2010, background): “Studies reviewed in FAO (1998) found a higher share of RNF income among poorer rural households in Pakistan and Kenya and a higher share among richer households in Niger, Rwanda, Mozambique and Vietnam.”
• Non-farm diversification, poverty, economic mobility and income inequality : a case study in village India (2013, background): “In general, the change in the overall income inequality brought about by an increase or a reduction of income from a given source will be smaller the closer the pseudo-Gini coefficient for that source is to the overall Gini (Lanjouw and Stern, 1998 and Elbers and Lanjouw, 2000).”
• Nonfarm Employment and Poverty in Rural El Salvador (2001, background): “See Elbers and Lanjouw (2001) for evidence in Ecuador that an expanding nonfarm sector reduces absolute poverty while it increases inequality.”