Federal agencies and other users of Federal survey data commonly publish/present estimates that are stratified across Census Regions as well as for Metropolitan/non-Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSA/non-MSA). Comparisons across these broadly defined geographic areas may veil important distinguishing characteristics between diverse rural and urban settings that may affect the delivery and qual...

Income from off-farm sources is especially important for land-poor households. However, the pattern of participation in off-farm activities is heterogeneous across space. We explore the determinants of participation in off-farm non-agricultural employment using data for rural Mexico. In particular, we try to understand how the neighborhood and the neighbors’ characteristics and choices affect t...

This article sets a context for researchers, practitioners and policymakers for prevention and treatment of substance use among rural, low-income families. To increase understanding of the specific needs of families in rural communities, the authors use an emerging theoretical framework which combines the ecological model with a risk and resilience theoretical framework. Results of an explorato...

The article analyzes theoretically the conduction mechanism of impact of FDI on the residents’ income distribution, based on the panel data of the China’s provinces from 1988 to 2005, using STATA software and other measures, studies on the direct and indirect effects of FDI to China's urban-rural income inequality from the perspective of Empirical analysis, the results show that under interacti...

rapid population increase, expanding urbanization, lack of employment opportunities, particularly in agriculture, population pressure on natural resources and failing to create and expand medium and large industries, especially in developing countries led industrialization strategy that these countries from the mid-decade villages 1970 in their development programs to consider. this year emphas...

BACKGROUND Rural populations in Uganda have limited access to formal financial Institutions, but a growing majority belong to saving groups. These saving groups could have the potential to improve household income and access to health services. OBJECTIVE To understand organizational characteristics, benefits and challenges, of savings groups in rural Uganda. METHODS This was a cross-section...

With the economic development and the improvement of residents' income level, China’s tourism industry is now entering into a new historical period. In this paper, we construct an empirical analysis model about urban residents’ rural travelling decision-making, and then analyze influential factors mechanism by using logistic regression model. Based on the analysis of rural travelling decision-m...

This paper evaluates the impact of some key labor market reforms on rural-urban inequality and income distribution, using a household-disaggregated, recursive dynamic computable general equilibrium (CGE) model of China. We also explore how these factor market reforms interact with product market reforms currently underway as part of China's WTO accession process. The simulation results show tha...

Most of the population of Nigeria is rural and agriculture is the mainstay of the impoverished people’s livelihood. This paper estimated the determinants of rural poverty in Nigeria using the Tobit regression model. Through the multistage sampling technique, primary data were obtained from 150 rural farming households using a questionnaire. The Result of Tobit regression analysis shows that inc...