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The rural nonfarm economy (RNFE) accounts for roughly 25 percent of full-time rural employment and 35-40 percent of rural incomes across the developing world. This diverse collection of seasonal trading, household-based and large-scale agroprocessing, manufacturing and service activities plays a crucial role in sustaining rural populations, inservicing a growing and modern agriculture, and in supplying local consumer goods and services. In areas where landlessness prevails, rural nonfarm activity offers important economic alternatives for the rural poor.Three key groups currently intervene in the rural nonfarm economy: large private enterprises, non-profit promotional agencies and governments. Large modern corporations take investment, procurement and marketing decisions that powerfully shape opportunities in the rural nonfarm economy throughout much of the Third World." The authors put forth three basic principles for policy makers who want to ensure equitable growth of the RNFE: (1) Identify key engines of regional growth; (2) Focus on subsector-specific supply chains; and (3) Build flexible institutional coalitions. They conclude that a prosperous rural nonfarm economy can contribute to both aggregate economic growth and improved welfare of the rural poor. -- from Executive Summary. ; Non-PR ; IFPRI2 ; EPTD

NFP growth beats Bloomberg consensus by 46K (private NFP by 36K). Looking at several measures of NFP (total, private) suggests continued growth. Figure 1: Private nonfarm payroll employment from CES (blue, left scale), from ADP (tan, left scale), total nonfarm payroll employment from CES (bold black, right scale), NFP adjusted for preliminary benchmark by author […]

January employment numbers, incorporating annual revisions, are out for Wisconsin. Here's a picture of some indicators. Figure 1: Wisconsin Nonfarm Payroll Employment (dark blue), Philadelphia Fed early benchmark measure of NFP (pink), Civilian Employment (tan), real wages and salaries, deflated by national chained CPI (sky blue), GDP (red), coincident index (green), all in logs 2021M11=0. Source: […]

With nonfarm payroll employment in November released (+199K vs. +180K consensus), we have the following picture of business cycle indicators followed by the NBER BCDC (plus monthly GDP). The employment series below incorporates the preliminary benchmark revision. Figure 1: Nonfarm Payroll employment incorporating preliminary benchmark (bold dark blue), implied level using Bloomberg consensus as of 12/4 […]

DWD reports on April figures. This allows for the following picture of Wisconsin macro aggregates. Figure 1: Wisconsin Nonfarm Payroll Employment (dark blue), Philadelphia Fed early benchmark measure of NFP (pink), Civilian Employment (tan), real wages and salaries linearly interpolated, deflated by national chained CPI (sky blue), GDP (red), coincident index (green), all in logs 2021M11=0. […]

Nonfarm payroll employment surprises on the downside, while preceding months are revised down. Here's the picture of key indicators followed by the NBER BCDC, along with monthly GDP (SPGMI). Figure 1: Nonfarm payroll employment, NFP (dark blue), civilian employment (orange), industrial production (red), personal income excluding transfers in Ch.2012$ (green), manufacturing and trade sales in […]

Comparing dynamic changes in household income and poverty among urban, rural, and estate sectors in Sri Lanka from 1990 to 2006, this study finds that a shift of household income away from farm to nonfarm sources is accompanied by a significant improvement in household income and reduction in poverty, particularly in the rural sector. Major contributing factors are the rise in returns to labor, in general, and educated labor, in particular, due to the development of the nonfarm labor market. Persistently low income among estate households can be explained primarily by the limited availability of nonfarm employment opportunities and the low education levels of working members.

Chapter I: Introduction: Context and Methods -- Chapter II: Literature Review on the Rural Nonagricultural/Nonfarm Sector -- Chapter III: Conceptualizing the Rural Nonfarm Sector: A Critique and Reconstruction -- Chapter IV: The Rural Nonagricultural Sector in Less Developed Countries and India: An Overview of the Data -- Chapter V: Relations of Production in the Coir Industry in Kerala: The significance of Class, Gender, Caste, and Place -- Chapter VI: Productive Forces in the Coir Industry: Labor Process, Socio-spatial Organization of Work, and Technology -- Chapter VII: State Development Policies for the Rural Nonagricultural Sector in India and Kerala: Colonial, Post-colonial, and Neoliberal Periods -- Chapter VIII: Development Implications of the Coir Industry: Employment, Wages, Social Implications and Class Struggles -- Chapter IX: Conclusion.

Positive NFP employment surprise. Figure 1: Nonfarm Payroll (NFP) employment from CES (bold blue), civilian employment (orange), industrial production (red), personal income excluding current transfers in Ch.2017$ (bold green), manufacturing and trade sales in Ch.2017$ (black), consumption in Ch.2017$ (light blue), and monthly GDP in Ch.2017$ (pink), GDP (blue bars), all log normalized to 2021M11=0. Source: […]

Employment still outstripping the November Wisconsin DoR forecast, based on SPGMI national outlook. Figure 1: Wisconsin nonfarm payroll employment (black), DoR forecast (tan +), implied from SPF forecast, 000's, s.a. Source: DWD, Wisconsin Dept. of Revenue (Nov.), SPF and author's calculations. The Wisconsin Economic Outlook forecast from November was based on the slowdown at the national level […]

As the nation outperforms, so too does Wisconsin. Employment exceeds the DoR November forecast. Figure 1: Wisconsin nonfarm payroll employment (black), DoR forecast (tan +), implied from SPF forecast, 000's, s.a. Source: DWD, Wisconsin Dept. of Revenue (Nov.), SPF and author's calculations. The Wisconsin Economic Outlook forecast from November was based on the slowdown at […]

Does this mean we should be expecting the recession, in next month's or month after's data? Maybe, maybe not. Figure 1: Civilian employment over age 16 (blue, left log scale), nonfarm payroll employment (tan, right log scale), both in 1000's, seasonally adjusted, both as of 11/3/2023. Source: BLS via FRED. Consulting the currently available data […]

AbstractKosovo is one of the poorest countries in Europe, despite the various poverty alleviation programs implemented by the authorities and the international funding community. This study aims to analyze income distribution inequality and factors behind rural households' poverty in Kosovo. Data on farm income, nonfarm income, unearned income, and socio-economic characteristics were collected using a semi-structured questionnaire from 203 randomly selected households in Kosovo. Linear regression, one-way ANOVA, and different versions of poverty indexes were used to examine the data. One-quarter of households' income comes from nonfarm activities. The middle-income households had the highest potential to find alternative employment in the nonfarm sector. Years of education, household size, number of family members above the age of 18, and total income had a positive impact on nonfarm revenues. The poorest rural households had the highest share of income from farm activities (77.52%). Nonfarm revenues have a positive impact on poverty alleviation; thus, the study suggests adopting suitable rural policies to enhance nonfarm employment for vulnerable rural households. The agro-tourism sector and circular economy approaches in agriculture with the focus on renewable energy can be considered as potential sources of nonfarm income, which could lead to sustainable poverty reduction.