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Rural Household Access to Assets and Markets: A Cross-Country Comparison

The sluggish supply response in most developing countries to the apparently favourable agricultural market situation of the past few years can be explained by the limited ability of price incentives to bring about an increase in production and marketed surplus in the presence of binding non-price constraints. This article characterises [...]

Measure for Measure: Systematic patterns of deviation between measures of income and consumption in developing countries evidence from a new dataset

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This paper uses an innovative household level database to ask two basic questions related to the well-known issue of income underreporting in household surveys in developing countries: (a) The extent of this underreporting in practice, and (b) whether and how it [...]

Urban agriculture, poverty, and food security: Empirical evidence from a sample of developing countries

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2010.04.007

This is the published article version of an earlier working paper with the same name. Urban agriculture may have a role to play in addressing urban food insecurity problems, which are bound to become increasingly important with the secular trend towards the urbanization of poverty and of population in developing [...]

A cross country comparison of rural income generating activities

This is the published article version of an earlier working paper with the same name. The paper uses a newly constructed cross-country database composed of comparable income aggregates to examine the full range of income generating activities carried out by rural [...]

Assets, activities and rural income generation: Evidence from a multicountry analysis

This is the published article version of an earlier working paper with the same name. The paper examines the links between the assets and the economic activities of rural households in developing countries to provide insight into how the promotion of [...]