Pathways Out of Poverty During an Economic Crisis : An Empirical Assessment of Rural Indonesia
Most poor people in developing countries still live in rural areas and are primarily engaged in low productivity farming activities. Thus pathways out of poverty are likely to be strongly connected to productivity increases in the rural economy, wh...
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| Format: | Policy Research Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2012
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2007/03/7471884/pathways-out-poverty-during-economic-crisis-empirical-assessment-rural-indonesia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/7217 |
| Summary: | Most poor people in developing countries
still live in rural areas and are primarily engaged in low
productivity farming activities. Thus pathways out of
poverty are likely to be strongly connected to productivity
increases in the rural economy, whether they are realized in
farming, in rural nonfarm enterprises, or by way of
rural-urban migration. The authors use cross-sectional data
from the Central Statistical Board for 1993 and 2002, as
well as a panel data set from the Indonesia Family Life
Survey for 1993 and 2000, to show which pathways out of
poverty were most successful over this period. The findings
suggest that increased engagement of farmers in rural
nonfarm enterprises is an important route out of rural
poverty, but that most of the rural agricultural poor that
exit poverty still do so while remaining rural and
agricultural. So changes in agricultural prices, wages, and
productivity still play a critical role in moving people out
of poverty. |
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