Pathways to poverty reduction

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...

Gender and Reduction of Poverty in Iran

Women and Poverty Reduction

Alleviation and reduction of poverty and common prosperity are the constant goals of Chinese Government. It is an important task for women’s federations at all levels to address the shortage of food and clothing for women and children in poor areas and to promote local efforts helping women and children in poor areas. Over the past years, the government, with poverty issues that affect women on...

Rethinking poverty reduction interventions

Poverty reduction in Africa.

Poverty in Africa has been rising for the last quarter-century, while it has been falling in the rest of the developing world. Africa's distinctive problem is that its economies have not been growing. This article attempts to synthesize a range of recent research to account for this failure of the growth process. I argue that the reasons lie not in African peculiarities but rather in geographic...