Many rural households in Asia have been able to move out of poverty in the presence of
increasing scarcity of farmland, initially by increasing rice income through the adoption of …

There have been sharp increases in nonfarm income among farm households in Central
Luzon for the last few decades. This study attempts to identify the effects of the increasing …

Abstract Sierra Leone is among Sub-Saharan African countries that still report appalling
rural poverty incidence despite series of national and global development efforts. Its recent …

This paper explores the underlying mechanism in the rural labor market that leads to income
growth and poverty reduction in the rural areas of the Philippines, Vietnam, Bangladesh, and …

Despite heightened global efforts, effective solutions to rural poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa
have remained evasive. In this region, endemic poverty is correlated with inadequate rural …