and Mathias Herr -- Current international development tools to combat poverty / Warner Woodworth -- Opportunities for …This unique book provides an overview of the need to alleviate poverty and what methods have been used in the past to … be used in poverty alleviation. Different models of microfranchising are reviewed and specific case studies highlighted …

The importance of agricultural growth to poverty reduction is well known, but the specific channels through which the …

globalization, technology and poverty. Jeffrey James studies the effect of information technology on patterns of globalization and …

This book investigates the relationships between rural poverty, risk, and development. Building upon the author's work … affects rural poverty levels in developing countries. In particular the book examines what we do and do not know about risk …1. Introduction -- 2. Risk and poverty -- 3. The risk coping strategies of the rural poor -- 4. The limits to risk …

(OECD) affect development and poverty in developing and transition economies …

important published work on the subject, addresses a core issue of contention: the implications of globalization for poverty and …Howard Pack (1994), 'Endogenous Growth Theory: Intellectual Appeal and Empirical Shortcomings', Journal of Economic …, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press for NBER, 261-338 -- Andrew Berg and Anne Krueger (2003), 'Trade, Growth, and Poverty - A Selective …

"Currently, works on poverty constitute only a small part of contemporary economic research; however, the field of … poverty and deprivation is undoubtedly one rising in popularity and relevance. Encompassing chapters that address both … unidimensional and multidimensional poverty, this timely Research Handbook explores all aspects of poverty and deprivation …