This paper assembles data at the all-India level and for the village of Palanpur, Uttar Pradesh, to document the growing importance, and influence, of the non-farm sector in the rural economy between the early 1980s and late 2000s. The suggestion from the combined National Sample Survey and Palanpur data is of a slow process of non-farm diversification, whose distributional incidence, on the margin, is increasingly pro-poor. The village-level analysis...
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2013/05/01
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Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques
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WPS6451
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2013/05/01
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Non-farm diversification, poverty, economic mobility and income inequality : a case study in village India
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increase in income inequality