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Manipulating the rural landscape: Villagisation and income generation in Rwanda

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  • Isaksson, Ann-Sofie

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    (Department of Economics, School of Business, Economics and Law, Göteborg University)

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The aim of the present paper is to investigate whether households relocated to governmentbuilt village settlements, as part of Rwanda’s Villagisation programme (‘Imidugudu’), diversify into non-farm income-generating activities to a greater extent than other rural households in Rwanda, and if so, to what extent the variation can be explained by differences in micro-level asset and meso-level access factors. Despite the programme objective to stimulate non-farm activity, the results of empirical estimations drawing on household and community-level data suggest that Imidugudu households differ surprisingly little from other rural households in terms of diversification into non-farm income sources. The slightly greater participation in non-farm income-generating activities observed among the Imidugudu households can be attributed to regional variation and household characteristics mattering for selection into the programme rather than to asset endowments and improved service access.

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Paper provided by University of Gothenburg, Department of Economics in its series Working Papers in Economics with number 510.

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Length: 29 pages
Date of creation: 28 Jun 2011
Handle: RePEc:hhs:gunwpe:0510
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Keywords: Income diversification; livelihoods; villagisation; Rwanda;

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  1. Ann-Sofie Isaksson, 2015. "Unequal Property Rights: A Study of Land Right Inequalities in Rwanda," Oxford Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 43(1), pages 60-83, March.
  2. Florence Kondylis & Valerie Mueller, 2014. "Economic consequences of conflict and environmental displacement," Chapters,in: International Handbook on Migration and Economic Development, chapter 14, pages 388-424 Edward Elgar Publishing.

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