Rural Income Generating Activities: Whatever Happened to the Institutional Vacuum? Evidence from Ghana, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Vietnam

World Development

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1297-1306

  Zezza, Alberto ^a   Carletto, Gero ^b   Davis, Benjamin ^c   Stamoulis, Kostas ^a   Winters, Paul ^d  

^a Food and Agriculture Organization   (Italy)

^b WORLD BANK   (United States)

^c UNICEF   (United States)

^d AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

agriculture; institutions; non farm income; rural development

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; INCOME; INSTITUTIONAL REFORM; INVESTMENT; RURAL AREA; RURAL DEVELOPMENT;

AFRICA; ASIA; CENTRAL AMERICA; EURASIA; GHANA; GUATEMALA [CENTRAL AMERICA]; NICARAGUA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; VIET NAM; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 67349194937     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2008.11.004     Document Type: Article

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