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 …

Using the case of Zambia, this paper examines whether structural change translates into reduced poverty and improved …

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 …

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 …

poverty reduction but also in economic growth. …

Rapid economic growth has failed to significantly improve poverty and nutrition outcomes in Tanzania. This raises … concerns over a decoupling of growth, poverty, and nutrition. We link recent production trends to household incomes using a … growth—not the level—is currently constraining the rate of poverty reduction in Tanzania. Most importantly, agricultural …

poverty, because poultry is an important income source for poor farmers and a major food item in consumers' baskets. Avian flu …