Labor markets, occupational choice, and rural poverty in four Asian countries.
This paper explores the underlying mechanism in the rural labor market that leads to income growth and poverty reduction in the rural areas of the Philippines, Vietnam, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. Increase in nonfarm income, most importantly coming from formal jobs, has served as an important driver...
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Bibliographic Details
| Published in: | Philippine Review of Economics
Vol. L, no. 1 (Jun. 2013), 23-44 |
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| Main Author: |
Matsumoto, Tomoya |
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| Other Authors: |
Estudillo, Jonna,
Kumanayake, Nandika S.,
Otsuka, Kejiro,
Hayat, Chowdhury Zia Uddin |
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| Resource Type: | Article
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| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
2013
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