Modrego, FélixCharnay, RomainJara, EstebanContreras, HugoRodríguez, Cristián2012-06-262012-06-262006-11https://hdl.handle.net/10986/9205Using data obtained from Living Standards Measurement Surveys of rural households, the socioeconomic trends in rural households is defined for a limited set of countries in the 90's and 2000's. These trends are studied in light of seven categories of rural economies: self-employed agriculture, employer agriculture (land owners), employee agriculture, self-employed not agriculture; employer not agriculture, employee not agriculture, not in the labor force. Relative differences in income, consumption and poverty are documented.CC BY 3.0 IGOWorld Development Report 2008World Bank10.1596/9205