Agricultural development is an essential engine of poverty reduction in sub-Saharan Africa,
where an estimated 75 per cent of the extreme poor reside in rural areas (Livingston …

The labor market literature in develo** countries has seldom drawn on the studies of rural
household income diversification. This paper draws on such studies to inform future study of …

This paper makes several points based on a review of household survey evidence from
Africa, Asia and Latin America.(i) In contrast to conventional wisdom, the evidence is very …

Using a comprehensive primary dataset collected from 3680 farmers in certain districts of
China and a long-time panel dataset of 31 of China's provinces from 2000 to 2012, an …

Using data on agricultural traders in Madagascar, this paper shows that social network
capital has a large effect on firm productivity. Better connected traders have significantly …

This article explores the dynamics of smallholder technology adoption, with particular
reference to a high‐yielding, low external input rice production method in Madagascar. We …

'In Transforming Traditional Agriculture (1964), Theodore Schultz argued that tiny farmers in
develo** countries were efficient but poor, needing-and able to use-new technology to …

This paper brings together development accounting techniques and the dual economy
model to address the role that factor markets have in creating variation in aggregate total …

Various recent cross‐country regressions have detected insignificant or even surprisingly
negative effects of schooling on agricultural productivity. Applying advanced panel …

This paper deepens the economic analysis of the effects of land consolidation–reduction of
land fragmentation. It does this in the context of rural Vietnam, studying whether land …