Brazil is the most megadiverse country in the world. It is home to one-third of the world’s tropical rainforests, twenty percent of the world’s freshwater, and has the world’s most biodiverse terrestrial...
As countries develop (and food saturation takes hold), agriculture’s role as domestic employer declines. But the broader agri-food system (AFS) also expands, and the scope for agriculture-related job creation...
Migration reshapes rural economies in ways that may go beyond the contribution of migrant remittances to household income. Consumption and investment expenditures by migrant-sending households may transmit...
Knowledge of the economic effects of migration, especially its impact on economic development, is rather limited. In order to expand knowledge on migration, and identify policies and reforms that would...
This paper presents an analytical and empirical approach towards understanding how trade liberalization is likely to play out in rural economies, with special consideration for production, incomes, migration...
This paper presents an analytical and empirical approach towards understanding how trade liberalization is likely to play out in rural economies, with special consideration for production, incomes, migration...
This paper uses the extended Gini inequality index to examine the sensitivity of measurements of impacts of migrant remittances on the distribution of household income by size to different value judgements...