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Jun 2011
A. Zezza, P. Winters, B. Davis, G. Carletto, K.Covarrubias, L.Tasciotti and E. Quiñones
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 [...]
May 2010
C. Azzarri, G. Carletto, K. Covarrubias, A.P. de la O, C. Petracco, K. Scott, and A. Zezza.
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 [...]
Jan 2010
A. Zezza and L. Tasciotti.
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 [...]
Jan 2010
B. Davis, P. Winters, G. Carletto, K. Covarrubias, E.J. Quiñones, A. Zezza, C. Azzarri, K. Stamoulis and S. DiGiuseppe.
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 [...]
Sep 2009
P. Winters, B. Davis, G. Carletto, K. Covarrubias, E.J. Quiñones, A. Zezza, C. Azzarri, and K. Stamoulis.
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 [...]
Jul 2009
A. Zezza, G. Carletto, B. Davis, K. Stamoulis and P. Winters.
This is the published article version of an earlier working paper with the same name. The paper assesses the current rural development practice against the main trends in recent rural development thinking, based on evidence from four country case studies. While [...]
Jun 2009
K. Covarrubias, A.P. de la O Campos, and A. Zezza
The RIGA project of the Food and Agriculture Organization created a growing database of 33 household living standards surveys from which a set of income aggregates and other measures of well-being were constructed in a methodologically consistent manner. Through this [...]
Apr 2009
A. Valdés, W. Foster, G. Anríquez, C. Azzarri, K. Covarrubias, B. Davis, S. DiGiuseppe, T. Essam, T. Hertz, A.P. de la O, E. Quiñones, K. Stamoulis, P. Winters and A. Zezza
This paper has two main objectives. Firstly, it provides an overview of trends in the magnitude, location and nature of rural poverty, with emphasis on least developed countries. Secondly, it offers new evidence that advances our understanding of rural poverty, by [...]
Mar 2009
T. Hertz, P. Winters, A. P. de la O, E. Quiñones, B. Davis, A. Zezza
This paper aims to shed light on a range of issues related to wage inequalities in the developing world. While much of the focus is on the gender dimensions of wage differentials, other aspects will also be discussed. In particular, the [...]
Jan 2009
P. Winters, B. Davis, G. Carletto, K.Covarrubias, K.Stamoulis, E. Quiñones, and A. Zezza
This paper is a shorter, more recent version of an earlier working paper, and uses RIGA data to examine the links between household assets and the economic activities of rural households in order to identify the role of certain assets on [...]
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