The Rural Non-farm Economy and Poverty Alleviation in Armenia, Georgia and Romania: A Synthesis of Findings

Bezemer, Dirk; Davis, Junior; Janowski, Monica; Wandschneider, T.

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“…The non-agricultural activities expansion has the potential to finance agricultural activities (Reardon et al, 2007); non-agricultural activities generate agricultural productivity spillover (Liu, 2017) contributes to consumption and income by providing an increase in capital stock and by reducing underemployment (Lanjouw & Lanjouw, 2001;Birthal et al, 2014;Anang & Yeboah, 2019); generates spillover in local economic activity, assists in the knowledge and information propagation in the rural area (Davis et al, 2004;Nilsson, 2019); contributes to increasing women's empowerment, obtaining income outside the male productive sphere that is the agricultural production (Staduto et al, 2013). According to Matshe & Young (2004), the interest of policymakers in public policies has been increasing to encourage non-agricultural activities in rural areas, through rural poverty reduction and increased local economic activity.…”

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Labor market and crisis: an analysis of sectoral segmentation in Brazilian rural

Mantovani

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2022

Rev. Econ. Sociol. Rural

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The article aims to analyze which factors contributed to the inequality across income distribution of Brazilian workers in rural areas, occupied in agricultural and non-agricultural activities. Quantile regression with sample selection bias correction and counterfactual decomposition of income by quantiles were applied, using the microdata from the National Continuous Household Survey (PNAD-C) for the years 2012 and 2019. The results showed that there is income inequality favorable to workers occupied in non-agricultural activities concerning agricultural activities, which is intensive for those with lower incomes, as well as for those with high incomes. The presence of sectorial segmentation was also confirmed, of which the largest portion in 2012 corresponds to the labor market duality. However in 2019, in lower quantiles the segmentation obtained greater explanatory power for the difference in income between the groups, while in higher quantiles the theory of human capital prevailed.

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Section: Agricultural and Non-agricultural Activitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Labor market and crisis: an analysis of sectoral segmentation in Brazilian rural

Mantovani

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2022

Rev. Econ. Sociol. Rural

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“…To a large extent, this view has facilitated the isolated treatment of issues affecting each space, and until recently it has failed to acknowledge the important inter-linkages that exist between the two spaces and the many variants of the spaces (Douglass, 1998;von Braun, 2007;Seraje, 2007). There is mounting evidence, however, that rural households can and do participate in a wide range of non-agricultural activities, such as wage employment in commerce, manufacturing and services, alongside the traditional rural activities of farming and agricultural labor (Davis, 2009;Adams, 2003;Ellis, 1998;2000;Adato et al, 2002). The recent increases in the scale of rural-urban linkages have been attributed to the decreasing incomes from farming, especially for small-scale producers who, because of lack of land or capital, are engaging in non-farm employment to supplement farm incomes (Tacoli, 2004;ADB, 2007;Satterthwaite, 2000).…”

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confidence: 99%