Jan 2009
B. Davis, P. Winters, G. Carletto, K. Covarrubias, E. Quiñones, A. Zezza, K. Stamoulis, and S. Di Giuseppe
This paper is a shorter, more recent version of an earlier working paper, and uses RIGA data to describe participation in and income shares from the different income generating activities across rural households in different developing countries.
Aug 2008
A. Zezza, B. Davis, C. Azzarri, K. Covarrubias, L. Tasciotti, and G. Anr¡quez
This paper analyzes the household level impact of a price increase in major tradable staple foods in a cross section of developing countries, using nationally representative household surveys from the RIGA database.
Aug 2008
P. Winters, A.P. de la O, E. Quiñones, T. Hertz, B. Davis, A Zezza, K. Covarrubias, and K. Stamoulis
Using nationally-representative data from 14 developing countries, this paper explores rural wage employment and its potential as a mechanism for improving the well being of the rural population.
Aug 2008
P. Winters, T. Essam, B. Davis, A. Zezza, G. Carletto, and K. Stamoulis
This paper proposes a general pattern of rural development in which rises in per capita income are associated with a decline in the importance of agricultural production and a rise in the importance of non-agricultural income sources. Following the approach to [...]
Mar 2008
A. Zezza and L. Tasciotti
This paper attempts to fill some of the key research gaps in the literature on Urban Agriculture (UA) using survey data for 15 developing or transition countries. The paper analyzes in a comparative perspective the importance of UA for the poor [...]
Mar 2008
A. Zezza, P. Winters, B. Davis, G. Carletto, K. Covarrubias, E. Quiñones, K. Stamoulis, L. Tasciotti, and S. Di Giuseppe
This is an updated (March 2008), revised version of an earlier working paper with the same title. The paper characterizes household access to assets and agrarian institutions through the comparative analysis of datasets from 15 nationally representative household surveys from four [...]
Nov 2007
A. Zezza, G. Carletto, B. Davis, K. Stamoulis and P. Winters
This paper assesses the current rural development practice against the main trends in recent rural development thinking, based on evidence from four country case studies.
Oct 2007
G. Carletto, K. Covarrubias, B. Davis, M. Krausova and P. Winters
This methodological note describes how comparable income aggregates were constructed from various household surveys from different countries.
Jul 2007
G. Carletto, K. Covarrubias, B. Davis, M. Krausova, K. Stamoulis, P. Winters and A. Zezza
Preliminary results from the RIGA project.
May 2007
B. Davis, P. Winters, G. Carletto, K. Covarrubias, E. Quiñones, A. Zezza, K. Stamoulis, G. Bonomi and S. DiGiuseppe
This paper uses RIGA data to describe participation in and income shares from the different income generating activities across rural households in different developing countries.
