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    Can skill diversification improve welfare in rural areas? Evidence from Bhutan

    Chun, Natalie | May 2012
    Abstract
    Income growth in rural areas is a considerable challenge to further poverty reduction and economic development. Using a survey of rural Bhutanese households, we investigate the impacts of a vocational skills training programme that was intended to diversify incomes outside agriculture. We find that the programme had limited positive impacts along various economic and psychosocial dimensions, but that it diversified household incomes into the basic construction skill areas that it provided. Notably, the programme did raise incomes for trainees in non-competitive labour markets where trainees accounted for only a small percentage of the overall population. The results and findings from qualitative assessments suggest that: a greater emphasis on creating a mechanism to connect the training programme with income-generating opportunities via job placement services, entrepreneurship or mentoring services is needed – especially in competitive labour markets where there are too many trainees in relation to the population; refining the curriculum and extending the training time to allow trainees to develop their skills may be important; and encouraging greater equality in the skill development process may require providing more female-friendly training that has flexibility in training time and venues and focuses on other skill areas.
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    Chun, Natalie. 2012. Can skill diversification improve welfare in rural areas? Evidence from Bhutan. © Taylor and Francis. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/4238.
    Keywords
    Financial & Private Sector Development
    Private Sector Investments
    Private Sector Participation
    Private Sector Projects
    Public Sector Infrastructure
    Public Sector Management
    Public Sector Projects
    Development Indicators
    Environmental Indicators
    Economic Indicators
    Educational Indicators
    Demographic Indicators
    Health Indicators
    Disadvantaged Groups
    Low Income Groups
    Socially Disadvantaged Children
    Rural Conditions
    Rural Development
    Social Conditions
    Urban Development
    Urban Sociology
    Project finance
    Resources evaluation
    Needs assessment
    Cost benefit analysis
    Social change
    Social accounting
    Inequality of income
    Economic growth
    Qualilty of Life
    Open price system
    Price fixing
    Price regulation
    Consumer price indexes
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    Chun, Natalie
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