This project analyses changes in income portfolios of rural Sub-Saharan African households - taking into account their strong involvement in non-agricultural activities. It investigates the corresponding poverty and distributional changes and the drivers of these developments.

Publications

Lay, J., Nahrloch, U., Omar Mahmoud, T. (2009). Shocks, Structural Change, and the Patterns of Income Diversification in Burkina Faso. African Development Review, 21 (1), 36-58.

Lay, J., Michuki M'Mukaria, G., Omar Mahmoud, T. (2008). Few Opportunities, Much Desperation: The Dichotomy of Non-agricultural Activities and Inequality in Western Kenya. World Development, 36 (12), 2713-2732.

Schüler, D., Lay, J. (2008). Income Diversification and Poverty in a Growing Agricultural Economy: The Case of Ghana.

Bussolo, M., Godart, O., Lay, J., Thiele, R. (2007). The Impact of Coffee Price Changes on Rural Households in Uganda. Agricultural Economics, 37 (2/3), 293-303 .