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Rural Nonfarm Income and Its Impact on Agriculture: Evidence from Albania

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dc.creator Kilic, Talip
dc.creator Carletto, Calogero
dc.creator Miluka, Juna
dc.creator Savastano, Sara
dc.date 2012-03-30T07:28:56Z
dc.date 2012-03-30T07:28:56Z
dc.date 2009
dc.date.accessioned 2023-02-18T19:43:37Z
dc.date.available 2023-02-18T19:43:37Z
dc.identifier Agricultural Economics
dc.identifier 01695150
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4632
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/250112
dc.description Using data from the 2005 Albania Living Standards Measurement Study (ALSMS05) survey, this article analyzes the overall impact of household nonfarm income-generating activities (RIGA) on agricultural expenditures as well as technical efficiency of rural farm households. We also differentiate the impact for subsistence and commercial farmers, who are in the top 25% of the distribution of value of annual agricultural sales. Our results show that on the whole, Albanian rural households utilize their nonfarm earnings not to invest in time-saving, efficiency-increasing technologies, but to move out of crop production. We derive similar findings when we try to estimate the same relation separately for commercial and subsistence farmers. However, for commercial farmers, we find a positive impact of household nonfarm earnings on livestock expenditures.
dc.language EN
dc.relation http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo
dc.rights World Bank
dc.subject Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis D120
dc.subject Economic Development: Agriculture
dc.subject Natural Resources
dc.subject Energy
dc.subject Environment
dc.subject Other Primary Products O130
dc.subject Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies: Factor and Product Markets
dc.subject Industry Studies
dc.subject Population P230
dc.subject Collectives
dc.subject Communes
dc.subject Agriculture P320
dc.subject Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets Q120
dc.subject Agricultural Markets and Marketing
dc.subject Cooperatives
dc.subject Agribusiness Q130
dc.title Rural Nonfarm Income and Its Impact on Agriculture: Evidence from Albania
dc.type Journal Article
dc.type Journal Article
dc.coverage Albania


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