1. Recent progress in poverty reduction. Bhutan has achieved remarkable socioeconomic progress and poverty reduction on the back of robust economic growth and the government’s efforts to improve the living standards of the country’s people. Poverty incidence declined from 31.7% in 2003 to 23.2% in 2007 and 12.0% in 2012 (Table 1). The reduction was particularly significant during 2007–2012, whe...

Macroeconomic instability has been increasingly considered as a factor lowering average income growth and, in this way, is a factor slowing down poverty reduction. But it can also result in slower poverty reduction for a given average rate of growth, due to poverty traps, often examined at the microeconomic level. Testing a model of poverty change on a panel of data for more than 80 countries f...

.................................................................................................................................. 2 INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................................................... 3 MODELING SOURCES OF AGRICULTURAL GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION ........... 5 POVERTY REDUCTION UNDER ETHIOPIA’S CURRENT GROWTH ...

I will start off with theoretical linkages between law and development. Despite all the slides you see on the board, very little in fact is known about the linkage between law, or the rule of law, and development. Wescott (2001) has referred to certain correlations between the rule of law and high income. The jury is still out regarding the robustness of this juxtaposition, especially with resp...

It is my pleasure to transmit to you the report of the TAC commissioned study on CGIAR Research and Poverty Reduction. The study was conducted by IFPRI in consultation with TAC with the aim of describing the processes and conditions under which agricultural technology can be an effective instrument for poverty reduction. The attached report was considered by TAC at its 81st meeting held in Bogo...

The authors are grateful to the UK Food Group for their additional contributions and comments. The paper reflects work in progress towards the development of new thinking on agricultural policy in DFID. It does not necessarily reflect the views and policy of DFID.