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

Alberto Zezza (), Gero Carletto, Benjamin Davis, Kostas Stamoulis and Paul Winters
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Gero Carletto: World Bank
Benjamin Davis: Agricultural and Development Economics Division, Food and Agriculture Organization
Kostas Stamoulis: Agricultural and Development Economics Division, Food and Agriculture Organization
Paul Winters: American University

No 07-24, Working Papers from Agricultural and Development Economics Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO - ESA)

Abstract: This paper assesses the current rural development practice against the main trends in recent rural development thinking, based on evidence from four country case studies. While much progress has been made in understanding the need to look beyond only agriculture for the promotion of productive activities in rural areas, and the ‘institutional vacuum’ consistently identified in the rural non-farm literature is gradually being filled, much remains to be done. One aspect on which more research is particularly needed is the development of better mechanisms to promote productive investment rather than just social investment and to assess the appropriate level – community, regional, national – at which to do this.

Keywords: Rural development; nonfarm income; agriculture; institutions. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I38 O17 O21 R50 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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