Rethinking poverty reduction interventions

Rethinking Poverty

Rethinking poverty alleviation: a 'poverties' approach

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Determinants of Rural Poverty Reduction and Pro-poor Economic Growth in China

China has made remarkable progress in its war against poverty since the launching of economic reform in the late 1970s. This paper examines some of the major driving forces of poverty reduction in China. Based on time series and cross-sectional provincial data, the determinants of rural poverty incidence are estimated. The results show that economic growth is an essential and necessary conditio...

Linking National Fisheries Policy to Livelihoods on the Shores of Lake Kyoga, Uganda by

LADDER is a research project funded by the Policy Research Programme of the UK Department for International Development (DFID) that seeks to identify alternative routes by which the rural poor can climb out of poverty. LADDER is working with nearly 40 villages and 1,200 households in Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi and Kenya to discover the blocking and enabling agencies in the institutional environme...

The Social Relations of Aquaculture Development in South and Southeast Asia

Aquaculture is equated with the reduction of poverty in discourse advanced by intergovernmental agencies such as FAO. This discourse demands support for the promotion small-scale aquaculture through project-based interventions. There is a lack of convincing empirical evidence to support the efficacy of development interventions of this type however. Meanwhile, huge increases in cultured freshwa...