According to the third annual edition of Accenture Research, Masters of Rural Markets: From Touchpoints to Trustpoints Winning over Indias Aspiring Rural Consumers, rural consumers are particularly aspiring or striving to purchase branded, high quality products. “Consequently, businesses in India are optimistic about growth of the countrys rural consumer markets, which is expected to be faster ...

INTRODUCTION: The current food crisis in Southern Africa has lead to an urgent concern about how to make food affordable to low income consumers in both rural and urban areas when crops fail and local prices surge. We suggest in this policy synthesis that the more fundamental question is how to make markets work to provide more food security options for the poor in both surplus and deficit year...

i Acknowledgments Special thanks are due to Dr. Sarah Taylor-Rogers, Assistant Director of the Maryland Center for Agro-Ecology. Sarah provided administrative support for the grant, and also was very helpful in providing copies of several unpublished reports referenced in the review. Mary-Louise Healy and Ellen Libao provided administrative support for the grant at Towson University. i Executiv...

We examined data on hospital hourly wages and the prospective payment system (PPS) wage index from 1990 to 1997, to determine if incremental changes to the index have improved its precision and equity as a regional cost adjuster. The differential between average rural and urban PPS hourly wages has declined by almost one-fourth over the 8-year study period. Nearly one-half of the decrease is at...

Increasing problems of rural unemployment in Indonesia are at the core of this report. Numbers of unemployed increased dramatically after the 1997 economic crisis and millions of people searched to be reabsorbed in rural labour markets. Agricultural land is scarce, however, and entry barriers are often high in non-farm businesses. Access to capital and information is limited for the rural poor ...

In vast markets of developing economies, especially in South Asia, both seasonal rural migrants and threatened urban workers constitute a bulk of the new class of working poor and are truly marginal in terms of their socio-economic status. We argue that gift-giving and gift exchanges in labour markets can perpetuate both rural and urban poverty among the working poor. In the context of working ...

IFAD: Rural Enterprise Policy iv RATIONALE: MICRO AND SMALL ENTERPRISES AND POVERTY REDUCTION Role of the Off-Farm Sector in Reducing Poverty 2 Small-Scale Rural Enterprise and the Rural Economy 3 IFAD and Rural Enterprise 4 Role of the Off-Farm Sector vis-à-vis IFAD's Strategic Framework and Regional Strategies 5 DEVELOPING MICRO AND SMALL ENTERPRISES FOR THE POOR IN RURAL AREAS: DEFINITION, L...

The study examined the horizontal price transmission and market integration between the local and foreign rice market in the Southern region of Nigeria. The study used average monthly prices of local and foreign rice in the rural and urban markets from January 2005 to June 2014. The findings show that, prices of local and foreign rice in the rural and urban markets have constant exponential gro...

1. This paper provides the framework for IDE’s approach to poverty reduction. It seeks to make explicit the assumptions underlying IDE’s efforts to integrate the rural poor into expanding input and output markets. Its aim is to demonstrate that there is a case for taking specific action to enable the poor—especially the rural poor—to participate in markets both as customers of purchased inputs,...