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Agriculture, the Rural Sector, and DevelopmentFrom the book: Asian Transformations
Agricultural productivity Structural change Rural developmentWorking Paper
Agricultural and rural transformations in Asian developmentOver the past sixty years, most Asian countries have undergone relatively rapid agricultural transformations that helped jumpstart broader economic development...
Agricultural productivity Structural change Rural developmentReport
Characteristics of the Vietnamese rural economy (in Vietnamese): Evidence from a 2016 rural household survey in 12 provinces of Viet NamTiếp nối sự thành công của chương trình cải cách Đổi mới, Việt Nam đã gặt hái được rất nhiều thành tựu kinh tế về tăng trưởng và giảm nghèo, Việt nam đã phát triển nhanh hơn ...
Agriculture Household survey Rural developmentReport
Characteristics of the Vietnamese rural economy: Evidence from a 2016 rural household survey in 12 provinces of Viet NamFollowing the successful implementation of the Doi Moi reform programme, Viet Nam has experienced outstanding economic progress, for example in aggregate output and poverty reduction...
Agriculture Household survey Rural developmentPolicy Brief
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Options for suitable biofuel farming: Experience from Southern AfricaSouthern African countries’ interest in biofuel is due of its rural development potential. Finding models to optimize this benefit is therefore paramount...
Biofuel Jatropa SugarcaneWorking Paper
Urban change and rural continuity in gender ideologies and practices: Theorizing from ZambiaAcross the world, people in urban rather than rural areas are more likely to support gender equality...
Rural development Urban ZambiaBook
Growth, Structural Transformation, and Rural Change in Viet Nam (in Vietnamese): A Rising Dragon on the MoveGiới thiệu Việt Nam là một nước đông dân ở khu vực Đông Nam Á với lịch sử lâu đời và đặc trưng về kinh tế, chính trị và xã hội.2 Sau khi kết thúc chiến tranh với Hoa Kỳ năm 1975...
Growth Structural transformation Rural developmentBook Chapter
Rural transformation: a commune-level analysisFrom the book: Growth, Structural Transformation, and Rural Change in Viet Nam
Growth Structural transformation Rural developmentBook Chapter
Characteristics of the VARHS data and other data sourcesFrom the book: Growth, Structural Transformation, and Rural Change in Viet Nam
Growth Structural transformation Rural developmentBook
Growth, Structural Transformation, and Rural Change in Viet Nam: A Rising Dragon on the MoveThis is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations...
Growth Structural transformation Rural developmentWorking Paper
Effect of girls’ secondary school stipend on completed schooling, age at marriage, and age at first birth: Evidence from BangladeshThere are many studies on the effects of conditional cash transfer programmes on enrolment, productivity and poverty reduction but very few on causal effects on ages at marriage and first birth. And none of them considers the convergence effect...
Education Regression analysis Rural developmentWorking Paper
Why does caste still influence access to agricultural credit?In India, caste shapes access to a variety of resources and outcomes mainly through its influence on inter-generational prosperity, but also the linked phenomenon of discrimination...
Caste Rural developmentBook Chapter
Did Rapid Smallholder-led Agricultural Growth Fail to Reduce Rural Poverty?: Making Sense of Malawi's Poverty PuzzleFrom the book: Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa
Equality and inequality Poverty measurement Rural developmentBlog
Malawi's Farm Subsidy Benefits the Poor but Doesn't Come CheapMalawi’s farm input subsidy benefits the poor and can be part of a viable national development strategy. Agriculture is Malawi’s main economic sector...
Agriculture Economic equilibrium Public expenditures