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Rural wage employment: is there a premium for agriculture?
Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2014This paper investigates the determinants of rural and non-rural wages using the quarterly Labor Force Survey (LFS) collected by the Palestine Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS). It estimates the wage equation for rural and non-rural workers controlling for structural, socioeconomic, and political factors.DocumentThe Chinyanja Triangle in the Zambezi River Basin, Southern Africa: status of, and prospects for, agriculture, natural resources management and rural development
International Water Management Institute, 2014This paper, which focuses on the Chinyanja Triangle (CT), an area inside the Zambezi River Basin, characterises three distinct farming subsystems across rainfall gradients, namely maize-beans-fish, sorghum-millet-livestock and the livestock-dominated subsystem.DocumentImproving basic services for the bottom forty percent - lessons from Ethiopia
World Bank, 2014Ethiopia, like most developing countries, has opted to deliver services such as basic education, primary health care, agricultural extension advice, water, and rural roads through a highly decentralised system.DocumentCereal market dynamics: the Malian experience from the 1990s to present.
Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 2012This paper assesses the role that cereal markets could play in contributing to poverty reduction in both urban areas through reductions in food prices and rural areas through increases in farm incomes, focusing particularly on the Malian experience.DocumentA strategic agricultural sector and food security diagnostic for Burma
Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 2013Despite its enormous potential, Myanmar’s agriculture has underperformed over the past fifty years. Furthermore, given that two-thirds of the population works primarily in agriculture, low farm productivity translates into high rates of poverty and food insecurity.DocumentGender and Rural Microfinance: Reaching and Empowering Women - A Guide for Practitioners
2009Innovations in financial services, particularly in microfinance, have enabled millions of women and men in rural areas who were formerly excluded from the financial sector to gain access to financial services on an ongoing basis.DocumentSecuring land rights in rural communities of Nigeria: policy approach to the problem of gender inequality
2013In Africa, the pursuit of gender equality in inheritance rights remains one of the most difficult challenges due to its entrenched patriarchal characteristics. This is also the case in the rural communities of South-Eastern Nigeria.DocumentPoverty and gender inequality in asset ownership among households in Southern Nigeria
2014This study concerns gender inequality in the ownership of certain assets among households in Southern Nigeria. With the aid of a structured questionnaire, data were obtained from 60 households using the multistage sampling technique. Results of the analysis are presented using histograms.DocumentRevamping artisanal gold mining in Zimbabwe to catalyse poverty reduction
South African Institute of International Affairs, 2014This briefing discusses the challenges and opportunities presented by theartisanal (small-scale) gold mining sector in Zimbabwe. It reflects on the measures needed to promote artisanal miners’ contribution to sustainable development, economic growth and poverty alleviation.