As countries develop, they undergo a structural transformation from agriculture to manufacturing and services as well as a spatial transformation from rural to urban. Historically, this process has been far from uniform across countries, with some fostering rural diversification out of...

This paper performs inequality decomposition by income sources using data from three different continents, using a unified inequality decomposition approach. Household survey data from Ethiopia, Georgia and Korea are used for this purpose, and the uniform result is that non-farm labor income is...

Edited volume of the contributions to the mini-symposium of the same title at the IAAE conference 2009.

This study develops and uses a programming model for farm-level resource use and output supply response to estimate the effects of agricultural land tax in South Africa: A case study of Free State, a region of extremely large commercial farms that gained their size and economic heft during the...

The emphasis of education as a driving force for the growth of agricultural productivity can be dated back to the early 1960s. However, most empirical work failed to take into account of the fact that production technology changes with time and consequently obscure the true contribution of...

El estudio analiza la evolucion del ingreso real de los ocupados en la agricultura entre los anos 1990 y 2005 para los casos de Brasilm Chile, Columbia y Mexico. Con informacion del PIB Agricola y de ingresos autonomos provenientes de las encuestas de hogares, se analiza si el alto cremiento del...

This paper takes a local perspective on global food price shocks by analyzing food price transmission between regional markets in Ghana. It also assesses the impacts of food price increases on various household groups. Taking the recent global food crisis as an example, we find that prices for...

A partir de la constatacion de que la magnitud de la subnutricion constituye uno de los grandes problemas a escala planetaria para las organizaciones multilaterales de desarrollo, en este articulo se pretende (a) ofrecer una panoramica general de lo que las mas recientes estimaciones...

Replaced with revised version of paper 08/04/09.

This paper attempted to analyses the dynamic relationship between the three development objectives: inequality, growth and poverty. Given the vast majority of the population (about 85 percent) is living in the rural area and poverty being higher in rural than in urban Ethiopia, the...