Assets, Activities and Rural Income Generation
Evidence from a Multicountry Analysis
This 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 certain key assets— particularly education, land and infrastructure—influences the economic choices of these households. Nationally representative data from 15 countries that form part of the rural income generating activities (RIGA) database are used in the analysis. The results indicate that improved land access is linked to agricultural production and thus will lead households to take, on average, this path for improving household welfare. Higher levels of education and greater access to infrastructure appear to be most closely linked to non-agricultural wage employment.
Publisher: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Author: Paul Winters
Other authors: Benjamin Davis, Gero Carletto, Katia Covarrubias, Esteban J. Quiñones, Alberto Zezza, Carlo Azzarri, Kostas Stamoulis
Organization: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Year: 2009
Type: Technical paper
Full text available at: http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/riga/pdf/RIGA_Assets_WD_RR_final.pdf
Content language: English