Strategies for stimulating poverty-alleviating growth in the rural nonfarm economy in developing countries

The rural nonfarm economy (RNFE) accounts for roughly 25 percent of full-time rural employment and 35-40 percent of rural incomes across the developing world. This diverse collection of seasonal trading, household-based and large-scale agroprocessing, manufacturing and service activities plays a cru...

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Main Authors: Haggblade, Steven, Hazell, Peter B. R., Reardon, Thomas
Format: Artículo preliminar
Language:Inglés
Published: World Bank 2002
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/156509
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description The rural nonfarm economy (RNFE) accounts for roughly 25 percent of full-time rural employment and 35-40 percent of rural incomes across the developing world. This diverse collection of seasonal trading, household-based and large-scale agroprocessing, manufacturing and service activities plays a crucial role in sustaining rural populations, inservicing a growing and modern agriculture, and in supplying local consumer goods and services. In areas where landlessness prevails, rural nonfarm activity offers important economic alternatives for the rural poor....Three key groups currently intervene in the rural nonfarm economy: large private enterprises, non-profit promotional agencies and governments. Large modern corporations take investment, procurement and marketing decisions that powerfully shape opportunities in the rural nonfarm economy throughout much of the Third World...." The authors put forth three basic principles for policy makers who want to ensure equitable growth of the RNFE: (1) Identify key engines of regional growth; (2) Focus on subsector-specific supply chains; and (3) Build flexible institutional coalitions. They conclude that a prosperous rural nonfarm economy can contribute to both aggregate economic growth and improved welfare of the rural poor. -- from Executive Summary.
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spelling CGSpace1565092025-11-06T07:14:43Z Strategies for stimulating poverty-alleviating growth in the rural nonfarm economy in developing countries Haggblade, Steven Hazell, Peter B. R. Reardon, Thomas developing countries rural population employment manufacturing agriculture agro-industrial sector economic growth The rural nonfarm economy (RNFE) accounts for roughly 25 percent of full-time rural employment and 35-40 percent of rural incomes across the developing world. This diverse collection of seasonal trading, household-based and large-scale agroprocessing, manufacturing and service activities plays a crucial role in sustaining rural populations, inservicing a growing and modern agriculture, and in supplying local consumer goods and services. In areas where landlessness prevails, rural nonfarm activity offers important economic alternatives for the rural poor....Three key groups currently intervene in the rural nonfarm economy: large private enterprises, non-profit promotional agencies and governments. Large modern corporations take investment, procurement and marketing decisions that powerfully shape opportunities in the rural nonfarm economy throughout much of the Third World...." The authors put forth three basic principles for policy makers who want to ensure equitable growth of the RNFE: (1) Identify key engines of regional growth; (2) Focus on subsector-specific supply chains; and (3) Build flexible institutional coalitions. They conclude that a prosperous rural nonfarm economy can contribute to both aggregate economic growth and improved welfare of the rural poor. -- from Executive Summary. 2002 2024-10-24T12:44:25Z 2024-10-24T12:44:25Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/156509 en Open Access application/pdf World Bank International Food Policy Research Institute Haggblade, Steven; Hazell, Peter B. R.; Reardon, Thomas Anthony. 2002. Strategies for stimulating poverty-alleviating growth in the rural nonfarm economy in developing countries. EPTD Discussion Paper 92. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/156509
spellingShingle developing countries
rural population
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manufacturing
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agro-industrial sector
economic growth
Haggblade, Steven
Hazell, Peter B. R.
Reardon, Thomas
Strategies for stimulating poverty-alleviating growth in the rural nonfarm economy in developing countries
title Strategies for stimulating poverty-alleviating growth in the rural nonfarm economy in developing countries
title_full Strategies for stimulating poverty-alleviating growth in the rural nonfarm economy in developing countries
title_fullStr Strategies for stimulating poverty-alleviating growth in the rural nonfarm economy in developing countries
title_full_unstemmed Strategies for stimulating poverty-alleviating growth in the rural nonfarm economy in developing countries
title_short Strategies for stimulating poverty-alleviating growth in the rural nonfarm economy in developing countries
title_sort strategies for stimulating poverty alleviating growth in the rural nonfarm economy in developing countries
topic developing countries
rural population
employment
manufacturing
agriculture
agro-industrial sector
economic growth
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/156509
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