Does non-farm income improve the poverty and income inequality among agricultural household in rural Kedah?

• Main Authors: Che Mat, Siti Hadijah, Abdul Jalil, Ahmad Zafarullah, Harun, Mukaramah
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 2012
• Subjects: HC Economic History and Conditions
• Online Access: http://repo.uum.edu.my/16676/1/1-s2.0.pdf; http://repo.uum.edu.my/16676/; http://doi.org/10.1016/S2212-5671(12)00031-7

This paper used a primary data collected through a surveys among farmers in rural Kedah to examine the effect of non farm income on poverty and income inequality.This paper employed two method, for the first objective which is to examine the impact of non farm income to poverty, we used poverty deco...