to reduce poverty than increasing export-crop production. This conclusion is based on case studies of ten low …

Public Expenditures, Growth, and Poverty assesses the efficacy of poverty reduction programs in Latin America, Africa … long term, while food aid and poverty reduction programs have little utility beyond immediately abating hunger and …- and long-run impact on poverty through various channels. It surveys spending trends and analyzes the effect of growing …

reduce poverty. In short run, the oil-biofuels nexus was clearly the driving force behind the surge in food prices, but … prices rose sharply in many countries and that global poverty levels have increased markedly. The good news is that the … out, but it is clear that additional people will fall into poverty and become food insecure. In the long run, there are …

The recent global food and financial crises have reversed the last decade's progress in reducing hunger and poverty …

gains and poverty reduction. The analysis uses a social welfare function to simulate the optimal allocation of research and … development (R&D) investment across developing regions (1) to maximize agricultural growth or (2) to maximize poverty reduction at … different values of R&D and poverty elasticities on the optimal allocation of R&D investment across regions. Our simulation …

This paper develops a framework to measure the impact of agricultural research on urban poverty. Increased investments …