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Inequality and the Emergence of Non-farm Employment in Rwanda

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Daniel C. Clay () (Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University)
T. Kampayana
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This paper examines the structure of income inequality among farm households in Rwanda. Specifically, it focuses on inequalities rooted in the distribution of and holdings and on the attendant polarization of relatively large landholders who tend to hire agricultural wage labor, on the one hand, and near-landless householders who provide this wage labor, on the other. Of particular concern is the role of emergent non-farm employment opportunities in this process and the implications for achieving less divergent income inequalities in the future.

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Paper provided by Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University in its series International Development Collaborative Working Papers with number RW-FSRP-RR-02.

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Date of creation: 1997
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Keywords: food security; food policy; Rwanda; non-farm employment;

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Q18 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agricultural Policy; Food Policy

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  1. Marijke Verpoorten & Lode Berlage, 2004. "Genocide and Land Scarcity: Can Rwandan Rural Households Manage?," Development and Comp Systems 0409061, EconWPA. [Downloadable!]
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