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  Externalities and labor market linkages in a dynamic two-sector model of tropical agriculture

  Poverty, inequality and development research at Cornell University, 2003

  This paper examines economic and environmental linkages between two parallel agricultural systems: one upstream and another downstream. Data collected in the Philippines is used to demonstrate how labor market linkages influence decisions that impact on local forests and watersheds.
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  Labour markets in Rural Africa: what do models need to explain?

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2002

  Labour markets are seen as a major channel through which growth is transmitted so as to reduce poverty. Growth means higher employment and wages.
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  Determinants of farm productivity in Africa (MSU)

  Food Security III Cooperative Agreement, Michigan State University, 1999
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  Agricultural and rural development policy in Latin America: new directions and new challenges (de Janvry / Sadoulet / Key)

  Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Berkeley, 1999
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  Rural nonfarm employment : a survey

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  Although governments in some countries are implementing projects to support small scale and rural enterprises, more commonly the rural non farm sector operates in a policy environment that is biased against it.
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  Estimating the world at work

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  What is the work status of the world's working age population?
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  Testing the induced innovation hypothesis in South African agriculture : an error correction approach

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  Apparently factor prices do matter in agricultural production and in the selection of production technology. And in South Africa, more attention should be focused on the technological needs of small scale farmers.
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  Why have some Indian states done better than others at reducing rural poverty?

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996

  Experience in India suggests that reducing rural poverty requires both economic growth (farm and non farm) and human resource development.The unevenness of the rise in rural living standards in the various states of India since the 1950s allowed Datt and Ravallion to study the causes of poverty.They modeled the evolution of average consumption and various poverty measures using pooled state
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  Poverty and inequality during structural adjustment in rural Tanzania

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996

  Growth attributed to structural adjustment has benefited the population generally, shifting a significant portion of the population from below the poverty line to above it.
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  How important are labor markets to the welfare of the poor in Indonesia?

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996

  Because poverty mainly afflicts agricultural and self-employed households in Indonesia, the most direct ways that policy can help to reduce poverty are through improving the operation of product, land, and capital markets, particularly where the regulatory environment now works to reduce farm profitability or inhibit entry to productive enterprises by the poor.

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