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The Rural Income Generating Activities (RIGA) Project is a collaboration between the Food and Agriculture Organization, the World Bank, and American University (Washington, DC) that seeks to contribute to the understanding of the income generating activities, both agricultural and non-agricultural, of rural households in developing countries. The RIGA project achieves this by two means. First, through the development of an innovative database of income sources from various developing countries, which is available free of charge to researchers via the project’s website. Second, by producing studies and publications that use the database to analyze pressing economic and policy issues. ==Purpose== The RIGA Project's purpose is to create an income measure that is comparable within and between countries.〔(Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development BREAD )〕 According to the RIGA Project website,〔(RIGA Project Website )〕 the key questions addressed by the RIGA Project include: *What are the relationships between the various Rural Income Generating Activities (RIGAs)? *What types of RIGAs are associated with poverty reduction? *What is the relationship between various Rural Non-Farm activities and agriculture? *What is the link between RIGAs and food security? In order to answer these questions, the RIGA Project developed a standardized income calculation method that is applied only to country surveys that meet strict criteria of data requirements. The definition of income utilized closely adheres to the one set out by the International Labour Organization. The "Resolution Concerning Household Income and Expenditure Statistics" passed by ILO outlines that household income includes all monetary and in-kind receipts that a household receives, which should include income from wage employment, self-employment, property, own consumption of household goods, and both public and private transfers.〔(ILO Resolution )〕 Since agriculture remains the principal activity for rural households, the RIGA Project also considers income generated from on-farm activities, both those sold and consumed by the household.〔(Methodological Note on the Construction of Income Aggregates )〕〔(Biotech Knowledge Center )〕〔(World Bank Research E-Newsletter (May 2009) )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「RIGA Project」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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