Public Expenditures, Growth, and Poverty assesses the efficacy of poverty reduction programs in Latin America, Africa …, and Asia by synthesizing studies conducted by the International Food Policy Research Institute over the past ten years … long term, while food aid and poverty reduction programs have little utility beyond immediately abating hunger and …

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 …

developing countries in Asia. The authors examine the shifting structure of supply and demand in the grain markets, the history …

interest to the US Government’s Feed the Future initiative. These poverty, health, and nutrition outcomes include both …

on growth, employment and poverty in South Africa. More specifically, it examines how men and women have been affected … differently and whether liberalization has contributed to the faster rise in female unemployment and poverty. The results suggest … that trade policies have not contributed to increased poverty and that trade-induced technological change has accelerated …

"Trade liberalization is expected to act positively on world economic development and poverty alleviation, both of …

projected economic superpowers. As a result, the numbers of Chinese and Indians living in poverty have rapidly fallen and per … staggering accomplishments and the lessons that can be applied both to other developing nations and to the problem of poverty … the importance of anti-poverty programs and safety nets in helping poor people escape poverty. The book offers a set of …