Many rural households in Asia have been able to move out of poverty in the presence of increasing scarcity of farmland … rice technology. An important lesson for poverty reduction is to increase agricultural productivity through the development … employment opportunities for the rural labor force. This chapter explores the key processes of long-term poverty reduction in …

How did we come to think that eliminating poverty is a legitimate goal for public policy? What policies emerged in the … hope of attaining that goal? The last 200 years have witnessed a dramatic change in thinking about poverty. Mainstream … economic thinking in the eighteenth century held that poverty was necessary and even desirable for a country's economic success …

This study assesses the redistributive effects of fiscal policy in Mali and Niger. Fiscal policy is poverty increasing … three deciles, respectively). Although existing direct fiscal transfers have poverty-reducing effects, they are too small …