Rural households in Papua New Guinea afford better diets with income from small businesses
Papua New Guinea is an economic leader in the Pacific region via its extractive resources. However, these industries do not provide employment opportunities for the country’s 6.4 million (80% of total population) rural inhabitants. Rural nonfarm enterprises (NFEs) could offer an additional source of...
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| author | Schmidt, Emily Mueller, Valerie Rosenbach, Gracie |
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| description | Papua New Guinea is an economic leader in the Pacific region via its extractive resources. However, these industries do not provide employment opportunities for the country’s 6.4 million (80% of total population) rural inhabitants. Rural nonfarm enterprises (NFEs) could offer an additional source of structural change, whereby benefits are capitalized by domestic rural and urban households along the value chain. In 2018, we administered a survey to over 1000 households to gauge whether households with NFEs afford better diets. We examine the factors associated with NFE ownership using a multinomial logit (MNL) framework. We then evaluate whether welfare effects differ by the sex of the NFE owner using nearest neighbor matching to address selection into NFE ownership. Results suggest households with a NFE obtain greater levels of consumption on the order of 26% for protein per person, 11% for kilocalories per person, 13% for total yearly expenditures per person, and 10% for household dietary diversity. Results point to the resounding limitations of female-owned NFEs primarily created to cope with income risk. The findings highlight the relevance of NFEs as a poverty reduction strategy and the importance of targeting when promoting in-country entrepreneurship. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1425722025-12-08T10:11:39Z Rural households in Papua New Guinea afford better diets with income from small businesses Schmidt, Emily Mueller, Valerie Rosenbach, Gracie income structural adjustment gender surveys nonfarm income consumption households employment diet rural areas female labour women dietary diversity Papua New Guinea is an economic leader in the Pacific region via its extractive resources. However, these industries do not provide employment opportunities for the country’s 6.4 million (80% of total population) rural inhabitants. Rural nonfarm enterprises (NFEs) could offer an additional source of structural change, whereby benefits are capitalized by domestic rural and urban households along the value chain. In 2018, we administered a survey to over 1000 households to gauge whether households with NFEs afford better diets. We examine the factors associated with NFE ownership using a multinomial logit (MNL) framework. We then evaluate whether welfare effects differ by the sex of the NFE owner using nearest neighbor matching to address selection into NFE ownership. Results suggest households with a NFE obtain greater levels of consumption on the order of 26% for protein per person, 11% for kilocalories per person, 13% for total yearly expenditures per person, and 10% for household dietary diversity. Results point to the resounding limitations of female-owned NFEs primarily created to cope with income risk. The findings highlight the relevance of NFEs as a poverty reduction strategy and the importance of targeting when promoting in-country entrepreneurship. 2020-12-01 2024-05-22T12:10:41Z 2024-05-22T12:10:41Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/142572 en https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133342 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105218 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12992-021-00787-0 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134293 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134433 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134987 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.136350 Open Access Elsevier Schmidt, Emily; Mueller, Valerie; and Rosenbach, Gracie. 2020. Rural households in Papua New Guinea afford better diets with income from small businesses. Food Policy 97(December 2020): 101964. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2020.101964 |
| spellingShingle | income structural adjustment gender surveys nonfarm income consumption households employment diet rural areas female labour women dietary diversity Schmidt, Emily Mueller, Valerie Rosenbach, Gracie Rural households in Papua New Guinea afford better diets with income from small businesses |
| title | Rural households in Papua New Guinea afford better diets with income from small businesses |
| title_full | Rural households in Papua New Guinea afford better diets with income from small businesses |
| title_fullStr | Rural households in Papua New Guinea afford better diets with income from small businesses |
| title_full_unstemmed | Rural households in Papua New Guinea afford better diets with income from small businesses |
| title_short | Rural households in Papua New Guinea afford better diets with income from small businesses |
| title_sort | rural households in papua new guinea afford better diets with income from small businesses |
| topic | income structural adjustment gender surveys nonfarm income consumption households employment diet rural areas female labour women dietary diversity |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/142572 |
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