As the goals of international agricultural research move beyond increasing food production to the broader aims of reducing poverty, both agricultural research and studies of its impact become more complex. Yet examining the magnitude and mechanisms through which different types of agricultural research are able to help the poor is essential, not only to evaluate claims for continued funding of ...

Introduction Tourism is considered as one of the fascinating facets of the socio-economic development of modern times. It is about people, places, structures and interactions of varying nature and intensities that eventually contribute emergence of a diverse set of outcomes viz. economic, socio-cultural and environmental. Perhaps the reach and linkages of tourism is far wider and complex and th...

The potential successes of the Poverty Alleviation Programmes (PAPs. Which have become more or less the defining features of contemporary development strategies, raise crucial questions of institutional design. Would the successful implementation of PAPs require new and autonomous institutional designs or would they simply be integrated into the existing institutional apparatuses? The argument ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted the economy and livelihoods of people worldwide. To analyze impact on material conditions, income levels, health industrial development employment opportunities farmers in China’s rural areas, especially poor areas explore whether can achieve stable poverty eradication during pandemic, we interviewed 2662 farm households poverty-stricken China us...

Realizing green economic recovery and eradicating energy poverty have become China’s strategic priorities in the post-COVID-19 era. In context of active advocacy finance, to empirically investigate whether finance can help eradicate poverty, this study utilizes provincial sample data explore eradication effect finance. Our also examines regional heterogeneity mediating effect. The main findings...

This paper aims to analyze how the terms ‘vulnerability’ and ‘poverty’ can be elucidated in a variety of ways, with different meanings, different implications and their interrelationship. The analysis shows poverty is generally associated with deprivation of health, education, food, knowledge, influence over one’s environment and the many other things that make the difference between truly livi...

After around twenty years of neglect, inequality has been brought out of the cold. Inequality has re-entered the mainstream development policy agenda by featuring prominently in the World Bank’s World Development Report 2000/01. Inequality matters in its own right (see Inequality Briefing No 1) and it is key to reducing poverty. This paper draws on recent research to explore in what ways inequa...

A s a unified set of global poverty reduction goals, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in principle provide an opportunity for overcoming sectoral divides and forging effective links between agriculture and health. Both agriculture and health are important for most of the MDGs, and positive synergies could link agricultural and health policy, programming, and research in ways that would b...