This paper is devoted to analyze the poverty-environment nexus from micro perspective. The aim of this paper is to provide answers for the question of how to achieve the compatibility between sustainable development strategies and poverty reduction policies at micro level. A farm household consumption-production model is proposed to provide a broader understanding of the links between energy us...

The ICPD Programme of Action addresses a wide range of issues that bear on poverty reduction. This brief note focuses on the effects of fertility decline associated with improved access to reproductive health services and their quality. The note summarizes new research on the demographic dividend, shows the implications of this work for poverty reduction, and presents new analysis of how fertil...

The financial crisis of 1997-1998 in East and Southeast Asia has raised questions about the sustainability of some hitherto admired modes of poverty reduction. But this paper argues that there remain important lessons to learn from Asia’s great ascent out of poverty since the Second World War. It remains important that well before the setback struck, much of this area had eliminated food povert...

This paper investigates poverty reduction strategy papers (PRSPs), launched by the International Monetary Fund/World Bank in 1999 as conditions for debt relief and loans. It queries whether PRSPs really represent a shift away from the controversial structural adjustment programmes (SAPs) of the past. Ostensibly PRSPs have a greater focus on poverty reduction, yet this investigation finds little...

1. This paper provides the framework for IDE’s approach to poverty reduction. It seeks to make explicit the assumptions underlying IDE’s efforts to integrate the rural poor into expanding input and output markets. Its aim is to demonstrate that there is a case for taking specific action to enable the poor—especially the rural poor—to participate in markets both as customers of purchased inputs,...