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Crop diversification and its impact on income diversification and crop income in Bangladesh

Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems
Ehsanur Rauf Prince
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Remittances and income diversification in Bolivia’s rural sector

Applied Economics, 2014
This article examines the role of remittances in income diversification strategies in Bolivia’s rural sector. Remittances can be consumed or invested by the recipient. As an investment, funds can be used for farming or to finance other nonfarm productions.
Alcala, N. R. Lazarte, Adkins, L. C., Lahiri, B., Savvides, Andreas L., Alcala, N. R. Lazarte, Adkins, L. C., Lahiri, B., Savvides, Andreas L.   +7 more
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Income Diversification in Norwegian Farm Households

International Small Business Journal: Researching Entrepreneurship, 2006
Many farm households rely on income from multiple sources, a phenomenon known as pluriactivity. The present survey investigates whether this is a deliberate strategy rather than a situation forced upon the farm household by external conditions. This study explores the relationship between four income diversification strategies reported by farmers and ...
Lars Rønning, Lars Kolvereid
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Dynamic Diversification of Fixed Income Portfolios

Financial Analysts Journal, 1994
(1994). Dynamic Diversification of Fixed Income Portfolios. Financial Analysts Journal: Vol. 50, No. 1, pp. 30-38.
John M. Mulvey, Stavros A. Zenios
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Income Diversification of Rural Households in China

Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d'agroeconomie, 2014
This article examines how different patterns of farm‐level diversification affect the income levels of rural households in China. Using quantile regression analysis of data from a rural household survey, the empirical results exhibit significant differences in diversification effects across rural income strata and various structural characteristics ...
Jianmei Zhao, Peter J. Barry
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Income Diversification in Italian Farms

QA, 2011
In this paper the process of income diversification in agriculture is analysed. In the first part we discuss how the decline of the productivist approach and the emergence of new development trajectories have contributed to widen the range of strategies implemented by farms to reverse income decline and instability.
Roberto Henke, Cristina Salvioni
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Income diversification in Zimbabwe [PDF]

, 2003
"The paper examines, taking into account the urban-rural divides, the changes and welfare implications of income diversification in Zimbabwe following macroeconomic policy changes and droughts of the early 1990s. Data from two comparable national income, consumption, and expenditure surveys in 1990/91 and 1995/96 show that the percentage of households ...
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Export Diversification in Low-Income Countries

OECD Development Centre Working Papers, 2003
This paper discusses major policy issues related to commodity dependence and export diversification in low-income countries. Contrary to some widely-held view, it argues that natural resources are not necessarily a "curse" — that they do not condemn low-income countries to underdevelopment but can provide rather a basis for sustained export-led growth.
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Income Diversification in Agricultural Households [PDF]

The research studies structural changes in agriculture and incomes of households in the Skofja Loka region based on an empirical analysis of income diversification in a sample of agricultural households (AHs) in 2001 and 2006. The analysis was conducted from three points of view: for the entire sample of AHs, according to socio-economic types of AHs ...
Kristina Knific, Stefan Bojnec
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City size, diversification, and income smoothing

National Institute Economic Review, 1999
This article investigates the mechanisms by which the cities of the United States smooth out fluctuations in their income. Contributions for social security and government transfers (the government channel) take the bulk of smoothing (17 per cent), and intercity mobility ranks high: about 6 per cent of income shocks are smoothed via the choice of ...
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