Nonfarm Employment and Poverty in Rural El Salvador

By Peter Lanjouw. 2001

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Subfields: Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science, Soil Science

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Non-farm work and food security among farm households in Northern Ghana (2011, background): “security is quite scarce (Lanjouw, 2001; Holden et al., 2004; Chang and Mishra, 2008).”
Non-Farm Activity, Household Expenditure, and Poverty Reduction in Rural Vietnam: 2002–2008 (2014, background): “All these factors point to non-farm activities as an important instrument for generating rural welfare, reducing poverty, and absorbing the growing agricultural labor force (Kung & Lee, 2001; Lanjouw & Lanjouw, 2001; Mishra & Goodwin, 1997; Ranis & Stewart, 1993).”
Rural Nonfarm Activities and Poverty in the Brazilian Northeast (2001, result): “On the whole, the evolution of employment in the nonfarm sector in rural Brazil appears to be congruent with the trends observed in developing countries more generally, and particularly in Latin America (see Lanjouw & Lanjouw, 2001; Reardon et al., 2001).”
Assets, Activities and Income Generation in Rural Mexico: Factoring in Social and Public Capital (2002, background): “For example, Lanjouw (1999, 2001) examines non-farm income in Ecuador and El Salvador using assets such as human capital (education, literacy), natural capital (land) and public capital (electrification, water connection) as explanatory variables.”
Gender and Rural Non-Farm Entrepreneurship (2012, background): “Moreover, the sector appears to be growing (Lanjouw and Lanjouw, 2001) and rural off-farm diversification is widely considered a potentially promising poverty alleviation strategy as the vast majority of poor people continue to live in rural areas (Dercon, 2009, Chen and Ravallion, 2010).”
Patterns of income diversification in rural Nigeria: determinants and impacts. (2009, result): “This is in line with previous studies that have highlighted the important role of education for off-farm income diversification (LANJOUW, 2001).”
Addressing poverty and inequality in the rural economy from a global perspective (2015, background): “Thus, although recognised as a source of upward mobility for vulnerable households, it is the least poor that benefit the most (Lanjouw, 2001).”
Agriculture and Development: A Brief Review of the Literature (2011, unknown): “China’s Township and Village Enterprises are a leading example of this phenomenon (Lanjouw and Lanjouw, 1995, 2001).”
Entrepreneurship Selection and Performance : A Meta-Analysis of the Impact of Education in Developing Economies (2005, unknown): “They may operate a nonfarm enterprise to offset uncertainty in farming outcomes, and the education level of household members may determine who does what kind of work (see De Janvry and Sadoulet 2000; Haggblade and others 2002; Lanjouw and Lanjouw 2001; Reardon and others 2000).”