D uring the last three decades, nonmetropoli-tan America has been relatively successful in recruiting and nurturing manufacturing activity. Yet with this success, rural America has realized that a development strategy focused on manufacturing, especially manufacturing in branch plants, will likely disappoint. There are simply too few new or relocating manufacturing plants to satisfy all communi...

OBJECTIVE To assess socio-economic indicators, nutritional status and living conditions of farm workers and their families, with the purpose to develop research and intervention programmes aimed at enhancing nutritional status and quality of life. DESIGN AND SETTING Three farm schools in two districts of the North-West Province and farming communities were selected. Anthropometrical measureme...

This paper aims to construct an empirical model for the analysis of two principal simultaneous decisions of farm operators: participation in the off-farm labor market, and the amount of resources to invest in farm capital. We first develop a theoretical model analyzing the effects of exogenous shocks on farmers’ decisions. Then, we estimate jointly a multinomial probit model of farmers’ off-far...

This study focuses on the development of small business and private entrepreneurship in the provision of employment for the teaming population of the Republic of Uzbekistan. It is one of the main indicators used in identifying not only the economic situation of the people, but also the lifestyle of the people, especially where they live. One of the main issues affecting the program of employmen...

Knowing whether a household behaves according to separability or non-separability is needed for the correct modeling of production decisions. We propose a superior test to those found in the literature on separability by using a mixture distribution approach to estimate the probability that a farm household behaves according to non-separability, and test that the determinants of consumption aff...

This paper contributes to the assessment of China’s rural labor markets, while paying attention to whether these markets are developing in a manner conducive to the nation’s modernization. According to our household survey, we find that the rapid increase in off-farm employment has continued and accelerated during the late 1990s. Our analysis shows that migration has become the most prevalent o...