Agricultural Productivity and Poverty Reduction in Nepal

Agricultural Productivity and Poverty Reduction: Linkages and Pathways

 Growth in the productivity of staple nontradable food production is associated with consumption increases or poverty reduction across a number of settings, although the study of these relationships is complicated by the specific market dynamics that determine food prices. The relationship between productivity growth in tradable or export-oriented production and poverty alleviation is less cle...

Agricultural Productivity and Poverty in Developing Countries

Extensions to DFID Report No.7946 Lin Lin, Victoria McKenzie, Jenifer Piesse and Colin Thirtle * Environmental Policy and Management Group T.H.Huxley School of Environment, Earth Sciences and Engineering Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, SW 7 2BP ** School of Management and Organizational Psychology Birkbeck College, University of London, London, WC 1E 7HX and Univer...

Agricultural Research and Poverty Reduction

Agricultural Growth and Poverty Reduction: Additional Evidence

Agricultural growth has long been recognized as an important instrument for poverty reduction. Yet, measurements of this relationship are still scarce and not always reliable. This paper presents additional evidence at both the sectoral and household levels based on recent data. Results show that rural poverty reduction has been associated with growth in yields and in agricultural labor product...

Gender and Reduction of Poverty in Iran