Rural Income Generating Activities: Whatever Happened to the Institutional Vacuum? Evidence from Ghana, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Vietnam

This paper assesses the current rural development practice against the main trends in recent rural development thinking, based on evidence from four country case studies. While much progress has been made in understanding the need to look beyond only agriculture for the promotion of productive activ...

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Main Authors:	Zezza, Alberto, Carletto, Gero, Davis, Benjamin, Stamoulis, Kostas, Winters, Paul
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	EN
Published:	2012
Subjects:	Economic Development: Human Resources Human Development Income Distribution Migration O150 Economic Development: Regional, Urban, and Rural Analyses Transportation O180 Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies: Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics P250 Regional Development Policy R580
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5038

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spelling	okr-10986-50382021-04-23T14:02:20Z Rural Income Generating Activities: Whatever Happened to the Institutional Vacuum? Evidence from Ghana, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Vietnam Zezza, Alberto Carletto, Gero Davis, Benjamin Stamoulis, Kostas Winters, Paul Economic Development: Human Resources Human Development Income Distribution Migration O150 Economic Development: Regional, Urban, and Rural Analyses Transportation O180 Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies: Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics P250 Regional Development Policy R580 This paper assesses the current rural development practice against the main trends in recent rural development thinking, based on evidence from four country case studies. While much progress has been made in understanding the need to look beyond only agriculture for the promotion of productive activities in rural areas, and the "institutional vacuum" consistently identified in the rural non-farm (RNF) literature is gradually being filled, much remains to be done. One aspect on which more research is particularly needed is the development of better mechanisms to promote productive investment rather than just social investment and to assess the appropriate level--community, regional, and national--at which to do this. 2012-03-30T07:30:58Z 2012-03-30T07:30:58Z 2009 Journal Article World Development 0305750X http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5038 EN http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Journal Article Ghana Guatemala Nicaragua Vietnam
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spellingShingle	Economic Development: Human Resources Human Development Income Distribution Migration O150 Economic Development: Regional, Urban, and Rural Analyses Transportation O180 Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies: Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics P250 Regional Development Policy R580 Zezza, Alberto Carletto, Gero Davis, Benjamin Stamoulis, Kostas Winters, Paul Rural Income Generating Activities: Whatever Happened to the Institutional Vacuum? Evidence from Ghana, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Vietnam
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description	This paper assesses the current rural development practice against the main trends in recent rural development thinking, based on evidence from four country case studies. While much progress has been made in understanding the need to look beyond only agriculture for the promotion of productive activities in rural areas, and the "institutional vacuum" consistently identified in the rural non-farm (RNF) literature is gradually being filled, much remains to be done. One aspect on which more research is particularly needed is the development of better mechanisms to promote productive investment rather than just social investment and to assess the appropriate level--community, regional, and national--at which to do this.
format	Journal Article
author	Zezza, Alberto Carletto, Gero Davis, Benjamin Stamoulis, Kostas Winters, Paul
author_facet	Zezza, Alberto Carletto, Gero Davis, Benjamin Stamoulis, Kostas Winters, Paul
author_sort	Zezza, Alberto
title	Rural Income Generating Activities: Whatever Happened to the Institutional Vacuum? Evidence from Ghana, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Vietnam
title_short	Rural Income Generating Activities: Whatever Happened to the Institutional Vacuum? Evidence from Ghana, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Vietnam
title_full	Rural Income Generating Activities: Whatever Happened to the Institutional Vacuum? Evidence from Ghana, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Vietnam
title_fullStr	Rural Income Generating Activities: Whatever Happened to the Institutional Vacuum? Evidence from Ghana, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Vietnam
title_full_unstemmed	Rural Income Generating Activities: Whatever Happened to the Institutional Vacuum? Evidence from Ghana, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Vietnam
title_sort	rural income generating activities: whatever happened to the institutional vacuum? evidence from ghana, guatemala, nicaragua and vietnam
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