Topical literature sees agriculture's ability to provide food and cash income as a major role in poverty reduction …. Although agriculture has been contributing to poverty reduction, there are good reasons to believe that future economic … Romania is not a very poor country, although poverty has been an issue. During recent years, Romania has progressed …

focuses on agriculture because it plays a central role in the poverty condition that continues to persist despite recent …Poverty incidence in the Philippines is rising based on the national official data released by the National Statistical … Coordination Board. Poverty incidence among population rose from 24.9 percent in 2003 to 26.4 percent in 2006 and then inched up …

with almost no machinery or purchased inputs at all, b) the income of a typical farm household is below a poverty line … unlikely that short- or long-term investment projects in agriculture can be credit funded. Currently, peasant farms are mainly … perspectives concerning a market-oriented, commercial private agriculture. …

activities, and labor allocation between own farming and wage labor in agriculture. To guide the empirical work, this paper … a favorable rainfall shock on agricultural wages, labor supply to market work, and per capita household expenditure. The …

from 2000 to 2010. Over the same period, the share of hired labor in agriculture decreased from 19.4 percent to 15 … capita household expenditure and labor supplied to market activities (including own farming). The effect on hired labor is … interpreted by some as evidence of adverse effects on poverty and inequality. The theoretical analysis, however, shows that the …