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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.