Non-Agricultural Labor from Rural Farmers in Bolivia: Determinants and Effects

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Non-Agricultural Labor from Rural Farmers in Bolivia: Determinants and Effects

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Lykke E. Andersen () (Institute for Advanced Development Studies)
Beatriz Muriel () (Maestrias para el Desarrollo, Universidad Catolica Boliviana)
Horacio Valencia () (Institute for Advanced Development Studies)

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Lykke E. Andersen

Abstract

This paper analyses non-agricultural work supplied by rural households in Bolivia. It is shown that roughly 50% of all rural households complement their incomes through non-agricultural work, but that households in the lowlands are more likely to do so than households in the highlands. Since non-agricultural work pays several times better than agricultural work, access to this source of complementary income constitutes an important opportunity to escape rural poverty.

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Paper provided by Institute for Advanced Development Studies in its series Development Research Working Paper Series with number 01/2009.

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Date of creation: Apr 2009
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Q12 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets

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