“…The combination of off-farm wage work, rural non-farm self-employment and remittances contributes 30-50% of rural household income in sub-Saharan Africa (Reardon, 1997) and about one-third of income in Asia (Haggblade, Hazell and Reardon, 2007). This growing importance of the RNFE is reflected in several recent studies of the determinants of non-farm rural employment and income (Lanjouw, 1999;Berdegué, Ramirez, Reardon, and Escobar, 2001;Corral and Reardon, 2001;Escobal, 2001;Lanjouw, 2001;Isgut, 2004;Zhu and Luo, 2006).…”