期刊名称：Diskussionsbeiträge aus dem Volkswirtschaftlichen Seminar / Universität Göttingen
出版年度：2007
卷号：2007
出版社：Universität Göttingen
摘要：Most poor people in developing countries still live in rural
areas and are primarily engaged in low productivity farming activities. Thus
pathways out of poverty are likely to be strongly connected to productivity
increases in the rural economy, whether they are realised in farming, rural
non-farm enterprises or via rural-urban migration. We use cross-sectional data
from the Central Statistical Board (BPS) for 1993 and 2002, as well as a panel
data set from the Indonesia Family Life Survey (IFLS) for 1993 and 2000, to show
which pathways out of poverty were most successful over this period. Our
findings suggest that increased engagement of farmers in rural non-farm
enterprises is an important route out of rural poverty, but that most of the
rural agricultural poor that exit poverty still do so while remaining rural and
agricultural. Thus changes in agricultural prices, wages and productivity still
play a critical role in moving people out of poverty.
