Does Non-Farm Income Improve The Poverty and Income Inequality Among Agricultural Household In Rural Kedah?

Siti Hadijah Che Mata, Ahmad Zafarullah Abdul Jalil and Mukaramah Harun

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Abstract: This paper used a primary data collected through a surveys among farmers in rural Kedah to examine the effect of non farm income on poverty and income inequality. This paper employed two method, for the first objective which is to examine the impact of non farm income to poverty, we used poverty decomposition techniques - Foster, greer and Thorbecke (FGT) as has been done by Adams (2004). For the second objective, which is to examine the impact of non farm income to income inequality, we used Gini decomposition techniques.

Date: 2020-01
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