-econometric studies that analyze the role of infrastructure in mitigating chronic and transient poverty. This paper aims to bridge this … irrigation enhances households’ access to the credit market which, in turn, contributes to further reduction in transient poverty … poverty. The structural estimation results support the validity of our theoretical framework. …

major cotton producing area of northern Mozambique. Cotton is especially relevant to rural poverty reduction because … technology adoption and poverty reduction. Policy changes to align private and social profitability of cotton production with Bt … the adoption of Bt cotton varieties could result in a sizeable reduction in poverty as measured by the predicted change in …

poverty alleviation goals. However, the issue of whether the poor benefit more from agricultural research that pursues … efficiencyequity tradeoffs. This paper estimates the potential impacts of agricultural research on economic surplus and poverty … because the rural poor in Nigeria depend mainly on the production of food staples for both consumption and household income …

The paper examines the impact of local institutions on development and poverty in the rural areas of India. Recent … the lower income groups. …

give high rates of return in African and Asia and has a substantial impact on poverty, currently reducing this number by 27 … million per annum, whereas productivity growth in industry and services has no impact. The per capita "cost" of poverty …

contribute to social objectives such as poverty reduction. To promote synergy in the implementation of PES, however, a number of …

Vietnam is likely to be among the hardest hit countries by climate change, which may threaten the recent progress it … has made in accelerating agricultural growth and poverty reduction. To examine how agriculture and the rural poor may be … of poverty reduction, food security and climate change adaptation. …

This study evaluates the impacts of a community-driven development (CDD) project on household income and acquisition of …. Participation in the project also increased the income of beneficiaries by about 60%, which is well above the targeted increase of …

primary education. The findings have important implications for the formulation and revising Ethiopian Poverty Reduction …/dropout of children from primary education. A Cox box proportional hazard model was used analyse the survival of children in … efforts to improve the livelihood options of the poor, including greater income generation opportunities, particularly in …