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Who counts? Challenges and biases in defining ‘households’ in research on poverty (2015)
Journal Article
Oya, C. Who counts? Challenges and biases in defining ‘households’ in research on poverty. Journal of Development Effectiveness, 7(3), 336-345. https://doi.org/10.1080/19439342.2015.1068358

In an important article published in 2002, H. White made a case for mixed methods in poverty analysis and addressed a number of puzzles arising from conventional oppositions between quantitative and qualitative approaches. One of the examples was the... Read More about Who counts? Challenges and biases in defining ‘households’ in research on poverty.

Bringing Agriculture Back In: The Central Place of Agrarian Change in Rural China Studies (2015)
Journal Article
Zhang, Q. F., Oya, C., & Ye, J. (2015). Bringing Agriculture Back In: The Central Place of Agrarian Change in Rural China Studies. Journal of Agrarian Change, 15(3), 299-313. https://doi.org/10.1111/joac.12115

Since the mid-2000s, rural development and politics in China has entered a new phase that revolves around what the central government calls ‘agricultural modernization’. Transforming the once-dominant smallholding, family-based agriculture has become... Read More about Bringing Agriculture Back In: The Central Place of Agrarian Change in Rural China Studies.

Introduction: understanding rural wage employment in developing countries (2015)
Book Chapter
Oya, C., & Pontara, N. (2015). Introduction: understanding rural wage employment in developing countries. In C. Oya, & N. Pontara (Eds.), Rural Wage Employment in Developing Countries. Theory, Evidence and Policy (1-36). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315735085-9

This chapter explains historical evolution of wage employment in China's rural economy in the past two centuries. It documents the growth of various forms of wage work in rural China during the Reform era and analyse the political-economic conditions... Read More about Introduction: understanding rural wage employment in developing countries.

Rural Wage Employment in Developing Countries. Theory, Evidence and Policy (2015)
Book
Oya, C., & Pontara, N. (Eds.). (2015). Rural Wage Employment in Developing Countries. Theory, Evidence and Policy. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315735085

There is a striking scarcity of work conducted on rural labour markets in the developing world, particularly in Africa. This book aims to fill this gap by bringing together a group of contributors who boast substantial field experience researching ru... Read More about Rural Wage Employment in Developing Countries. Theory, Evidence and Policy.