@article{Zezza:7925,
      recid = {7925},
      author = {Zezza, Alberto and Winters, Paul C. and Davis, Benjamin  and Carletto, Calogero and Covarrubias, Katia and Quinones,  Esteban and Stamoulis, Kostas G. and Di Giuseppe, Stefania},
      title = {Rural Household Access to Assets and Agrarian  Institutions: A Cross Country Comparison},
      address = {2007},
      number = {691-2016-47392},
      series = {Seminar Paper},
      pages = {35},
      year = {2007},
      abstract = {Agriculture is at the core of the livelihoods of a large  share of rural households throughout the developing world.  Agricultural growth is a major engine for overall economic  growth and possibly the single most important pathway out  of poverty in the rural space. This paper characterizes  household access to assets and agrarian institutions of  households engaged in agricultural activities in a sample  of developing countries. The evidence presented in the  paper draws from 15 nationally representative household  surveys from four regions of the developing world. We find  that the access of rural households to a range of  agricultural-specific assets (including land and livestock)  and institutions is in general low, though highly  heterogeneous across countries, and by categories of  households within countries. A large share of rural  agricultural households do not use or have access to basic  productive inputs, agricultural support services or output  markets, and in general it is the landless and the smallest  landowners who suffer significantly more from this lack of  access. We relate this to the households' ability to engage  successfully in commercial farming and find consistent  supporting evidence for the hypothesis that this lack of  access is significantly constraining their potential to  engage successfully in agriculture.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/7925},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.7925},
}