Those who study global poverty and ways to reduce it face a perennial set of questions: Do advances in knowledge … benefits? The contributors to Agricultural Research, Livelihoods, and Poverty shed light on these questions through a … collection of case studies that explore the types of impact that agricultural research has had on livelihoods and poverty in low …

education, health, and nutrition services—have become a vital part of poverty reduction strategies in many countries … from case studies of CCTs in Brazil, Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua. The studies examine many aspects of CCTs, including …

household levels. Second, they evaluate the targeting in terms of its impact on poverty alleviation relative to other feasible …

the individual level, the study focuses on aggregate community-level indicators of well being such as poverty, inequality … level: (1) changes in rates of relative poverty; (2) changes in inequality; (3) school continuation rates; (4) changes in …

household levels. Second, they evaluate the targeting in terms of its impact on poverty alleviation relative to other feasible …

the individual level, the study focuses on aggregate community-level indicators of well being such as poverty, inequality … level: (1) changes in rates of relative poverty; (2) changes in inequality; (3) school continuation rates; (4) changes in …

pressures for domestic policy reforms. We analyze the case of a small country, Mexico, forming an RTA with two larger countries …, the U.S. and Canada, in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Mexico exhibits all three characteristics of a … in place. Mexico gains from NAFTA only when it also removes domestic distortions in agriculture. Then, agriculture can …