Fair Progress? Economic Mobility across Generations around the World focuses on an issue that has gotten much attention in the developed world, but will present new data and …
Y Gautam, P Andersen - Journal of rural studies, 2016 - Elsevier
Diversification of livelihoods is a commonly applied strategy for coping with economic and environmental shocks and instrumental in poverty reduction. In this paper, we have …
Described as the biggest migration in human history, an estimated 250 million Chinese people have left their villages in recent decades to live and work in urban areas. Xinyuan …
Using recent household survey data from rural China, this article investigates determinants of labor migration, paying special attention to the role of migrant networks. Migrant networks …
K Munshi - Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2014 - aeaweb.org
My objective in this paper is to lay the groundwork for a new network-based theory of economic development. The first step is to establish that community-based networks are …
This paper examines the links between the assets and the economic activities of rural households in developing countries to provide insight into how the promotion of certain key …