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The filters to exit rural poverty: An analysis of the complementarities of assets in developing countries

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  • Foster, William
  • Valdés, Alberto
  • Davis, Benjamin
  • Anríquez, Gustavo

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This paper explores a 15-country household data base to evaluate the impact of three key assets (land, education and infrastructure) on rural poverty. Using both a descriptive analysis and a quadratic probit model, with the probability of being poor as a function of these three assets, the paper concludes that household access to education and infrastructure are positively associated with higher incomes, while the impact of land holdings varies across countries. Also, this paper shows the importance of the complementarities among assets in their poverty alleviating potential. The key policy implications revolve around long-term public investments in education and rural infrastructure, and asset-bundling, i.e. investing in assets simultaneously

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  • Foster, William & Valdés, Alberto & Davis, Benjamin & Anríquez, Gustavo, 2011. "The filters to exit rural poverty: An analysis of the complementarities of assets in developing countries," ESA Working Papers 289019, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Agricultural Development Economics Division (ESA).
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:faoaes:289019
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.289019
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    1. Gustavo Anríquez & William Foster & Jorge Ortega, 2020. "Rural and agricultural subsidies in Latin America: Development costs of misallocated public resources," Development Policy Review, Overseas Development Institute, vol. 38(1), pages 140-158, January.
    2. Srinivas Goli & Anu Rammohan & Sri Priya Reddy, 2021. "The interaction of household agricultural landholding and Caste on food security in rural Uttar Pradesh, India," Food Security: The Science, Sociology and Economics of Food Production and Access to Food, Springer;The International Society for Plant Pathology, vol. 13(1), pages 219-237, February.
    3. Norman Bentley Piccioni, 2015. "Agriculture in Nicaragua," World Bank Publications - Reports 25978, The World Bank Group.
    4. Yao Zhang & Jianjun Huai, 2023. "A Case Study of Farmers’ Behavioral Motivation Mechanisms to Crack the Fractal Multidimensional Relative Poverty Trap in Shaanxi, China," Agriculture, MDPI, vol. 13(11), pages 1-22, October.
    5. Rammohan, Anu & Pritchard, Bill, 2014. "The Role of Landholding as a Determinant of Food and Nutrition Insecurity in Rural Myanmar," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 64(C), pages 597-608.
    6. Solomon Zena Walelign & Mariève Pouliot & Helle Overgaard Larsen & Carsten Smith-Hall, 2015. "A novel approach to dynamic livelihood clustering: Empirical evidence from Nepal," IFRO Working Paper 2015/09, University of Copenhagen, Department of Food and Resource Economics.
    7. Paulo Peixoto & Vítor João Pereira Domingues Martinho & Paulo Mourao, 2022. "Corruption and Inflation in Agricultural Production: The Problem of the Chicken and the Egg," Economies, MDPI, vol. 10(11), pages 1-33, October.

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