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Rural Household Access to Assets and Agrarian Institutions : A Cross Country Comparison

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dc.contributor.authorZezza, Alberto
dc.contributor.authorWinters, Paul
dc.contributor.authorDavis, Benjamin
dc.contributor.authorCarletto, Gero
dc.contributor.authorCovarrubias, Katia
dc.contributor.authorQuinones, Esteban
dc.contributor.authorStamoulis, Kostas
dc.contributor.authorKarfakisis, Takis
dc.contributor.authorTasciottiis, Luca
dc.contributor.authorDiGiuseppe, Stefania
dc.contributor.authorBonomitiis, Genny
dc.date.accessioned2012-06-26T15:41:25Z
dc.date.available2012-06-26T15:41:25Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.description.abstractAccess to assets and agrarian institutions is of critical importance to the economic viability of rural households. Understanding the extent of this access and how it links to the ability of rural households to employ different pathways out of poverty is thus vital for designing rural development policies. This paper characterizes household access to assets and agrarian institutions through the comparative analysis of datasets from 15 nationally representative household surveys from four regions of the developing world. It finds that the access of rural households to a range of assets (including education, land and livestock) and institutions is in general low, though highly heterogeneous across countries, and by categories of households within countries. A large share of rural agricultural households do not use or have access to basic productive inputs, agricultural support services or output markets, and in general it is the landless and the smallest landowners who suffer significantly more from this lack of access.en
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/9197
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/9197
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherWashington, DC: World Bank
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.subjectWorld Development Report 2008
dc.titleRural Household Access to Assets and Agrarian Institutions : A Cross Country Comparisonen
dspace.entity.typePublication
okr.crosscuttingsolutionareaFragility, Conflict, and Violence
okr.date.doiregistration2025-05-05T11:54:43.231723Z
okr.globalpracticeSocial, Urban, Rural and Resilience
okr.globalpracticePoverty
okr.globalpracticeGovernance
okr.language.supporteden
okr.region.administrativeAfrica
okr.region.administrativeEurope and Central Asia
okr.region.administrativeLatin America & Caribbean
okr.region.administrativeSouth Asia
okr.relation.associatedurlhttps://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/5990
okr.topicConflict and Development
okr.topicGovernance
okr.topicPoverty Reduction
okr.topicPrivate Sector
okr.topicRural Development
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