Effects of Non-Farm Employment on Rural Income Inequality in Developing Countries: an Investment Perspective

By T. Reardon, J. Taylor, K. Stamoulis, Peter Lanjouw, A. Balisacan. 2008

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Safety Research

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A Cross-Country Comparison of Rural Income Generating Activities (2010, background): “The relevance of entry barriers may result from a combination of lack of household capacity to make investments in key assets and the relative scarcity of low capital entry economic activities in rural areas (Reardon et al, 2000).”
Rural Income Generating Activities : A Cross Country Comparison (2007, background): “For Mexico, Yunez-Naude and Taylor (2001) find a positive relationship between land size and participation in crop and livestock activities and no relationship between crop income and land size.”
Identifying determinants, pressures and trade-offs of crop residue use in mixed smallholder farms in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia (2015, background): “Additionally, the increasing share of nonfarm activities in the household income in most of the study sites illustrates how households are trying to improve their resilience and adaptability (Reardon et al., 2000; Haggblade et al., 2010).”
Does non-farm sector employment reduce rural poverty and vulnerability? Evidence from Vietnam and India (2015, background): “Reardon et al. (2000) also emphasise the barriers faced by poor households that prevent them from investing in non-farm assets, suggesting the existence of the poverty trap.”
Supermarkets, wholesalers, and tomato growers in Guatemala (2007, background): “…ambiguous expectations since on the one hand rural non-farm employment can help relax the household’s credit constraint and allow for self financing of farm assets and crop inputs (Reardon et al 2000) that will also allow for participation in a presumably more demanding supermarket market channel.”
Does the Nonfarm Economy Offer Pathways for Upward Mobility? Evidence from a Panel Data Study in Ethiopia (2012, background): “Lenders may use the evidence of steady pay in the non-farm market as collateral for loans (Collier and Lal, 1984, Reardon et al., 2000). d) RNFE and risk In the face of a virtually nonexistent rural insurance markets, even moderate shocks may have long term impacts on households’ welfare,…”