We use five waves of household surveys in Uganda, from 1992/3 to 2011/12, study income diversification and its effect on the welfare rural urban households during a period sustained economic growth poverty reduction, comparing 1990s 2000s, disaggregating by gender head. Diversification is measured terms access incomes agriculture (farming), agricultural wage, self-employment (informal), wage em...

In this research we consider the impact of export-driven, soybean agriculture in Mato Grosso on regional economic growth. Here we argue that the soybean sector has served as a motor to the state's economy by increasing the demand for services, housing, and goods, and by providing a source of investment capital to the non-agricultural sector. Specifically, we show that each square kilometer of s...

TO DATE, MOST development theory and practice have focused on either “urban” or “rural” issues with little consideration of the interrelations between the two. By contrast, several empirical studies show that the linkages between urban centres and the countryside, including movement of people, goods, capital and other social transactions, play an important role in processes of rural and urban c...

rapid population increase, expanding urbanization, lack of employment opportunities, particularly in agriculture, population pressure on natural resources and failing to create and expand medium and large industries, especially in developing countries led industrialization strategy that these countries from the mid-decade villages 1970 in their development programs to consider. this year emphas...

In studies on the influence of contextual factors on women’s employment in the Middle East, two myths figure regularly, which both seems to be related to the disentanglement of micro and macro levels. By applying a more comprehensive view and using multilevel models, we provide a more nuanced view of the relationship between the contextual and individual level regarding women’s non-agricultural...

â â â â  â  abstract â  most debates about the role of tariff cuts on the level of employment and rate of wages in labor market have come out of well-known hecscher – ohlin and stopler – samuelson (hos) theorems. considering the fact that we have divided the workforce into skilled and unskilled labors the present paper assesses the impacts of tariff cuts on labor market indicators in iran. ...

introduction youth, as constructors of the future community, play an important role in rural economy and agriculture of developing countries. rural youth accounts for around 55% of the world youth population. it was estimated that by the year 2050, 700 million youth are in rural areas. they develop the skills, knowledge and attitudes that enable them to take an active role in society. but as is...

This paper shows how agricultural productivity shocks can generate large industrial output fluctuations in poor countries, using a static general-equilibrium model with Stone-Geary preferences. A negative shock to agricultural productivity increases food prices, which affects manufacturing output through two channels: (1) meeting subsistence requirements in the face of rising food prices causes...

"The faster agriculture grows, the faster its relative size declines." That quotation from The Economics of Agricultural Development (Mellor 1966) still captures the essence of agricultural growth and its causal relationship to the structural transformation and aggregate growth of an economy. The quotation suggests that agriculture has a potential for accelerated growth. This suggestion arises ...