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"The world made significant progress on reducing poverty between 1981 and 2001 — the number of people in developing countries living on less than US$1 a day fell from 1.5 billion to 1.1 billion, or from 40 to 21 percent of the world's population. In fact, however, nearly all this progress...
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"The reform experiences of China and India—similar in some ways and different in others—shed light on the enormous potential for investments and policies in support of pro-poor agricultural and rural growth to fight poverty and malnutrition in developing countries." from Text
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This 2014–2015 Global Food Policy Report is the fourth in an annual series that provides a comprehensive overview of major food policy developments and events. In this report, distinguished researchers, policymakers, and practitioners review what happened in food policy in 2014 at the global,...
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should be done in the future? In 2011, agriculture moved to the forefront of the international development agenda. In … addition to producing adequate food, agriculture's crucial role in improving nutrition and health, sustainably making use of …
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This paper examines the role of agriculture and rural development, in general, in the most successful countries of Asia …
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governance to promote strategies and policies targeted toward the achievement of gender equity, poverty reduction, and …
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"Even though both “good governance” and “pro-poor growth” have become important concepts in development thinking and … practice, studies that assess to which extent and how good governance contributes to pro-poor growth are still relatively … different aspects of governance and pro-poor growth. Using this framework, the paper reviews a range of quantitative cross …
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