Moving out of agriculture in Bangladesh: The role of farm, non-farm and mixed households

Binayak Sen, Paul Dorosh and Mansur Ahmed

World Development, 2021, vol. 144, issue C

Abstract: This paper explores patterns of exit from agriculture in rural Bangladesh by utilizing nationally representative repeat cross-section and pseudo-panel survey data. Our analysis focuses at the rural household level where we focus on three types of households: (a) “pure” agriculture households in which all workers are employed only in agriculture; (b) “mixed” households in which some members remain in the farm sector and others pursue nonfarm activities, and (c) rural “nonfarm” households who are exclusively dependent on non-agricultural employment.

Keywords: Agricultural labor markets; Rural nonfarm sector; Rural diversification; Rural-urban migration; Asia; Bangladesh (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105479

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