This study examines the relationship between agricultural technology adoption and poverty with a focus on New Rice … there is a scope for reducing poverty through the accelerated adoption of NERICA varieties by farmers. …

The supermarket revolution has arrived in China and is spreading as fast as or faster than anywhere in the world. As … communities in the Greater Beijing area, we find small and poor farmers have actively participate in the emergence of China … the paper we document seven characteristics of China's food economy that we believe account for this unique set of …

In this paper we apply a simulation model of a village economy in Guizhou province, China, to assess impacts of trade …. At the village level, a land market does not influence the poverty outcome of the reform but reduces its inequality …

asymmetrically to declines and increases in the price of cereal in China. Our results imply that introducing cereal price subsidies …

The microfinance industry in Vietnam, particularly those sponsored by nongovernment organisations (NGOs), has … interview process that incorporated various stakeholders including financial donors, NGO-sponsored microfinance institutions … contribute to poverty alleviation, their future viability is clouded by donor requirements that they become financially self …

This paper evaluates the long-term impact of microfinance credit from the intensity of participation in borrowing. We … use a four-round panel data set on 351 farm households that had access to microfinance in northern Ethiopia. Over the … years 1997-2006, with three-year intervals, households are observed on key poverty indicators: improvements in annual …

as well as their expectations on other members' repayment decisions. Exploiting a rich data set of a microfinance program …

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