challenges in areas such as food security, agricultural development, rural poverty, and environmental protection; to catalyze a …

Contents: 1.The Changing Profile of Poverty in the World/Shaohua Chen and Martin Ravallion. 2.Characteristics and … Causes of Severe Poverty and Hunger/Akhter U. Ahmed, Ruth Vargas Hill, Lisa C. Smith, and Tim Frankenberger. 3.The Poorest …/Todd Benson, Michael Epprecht, and Nicholas Minot 5.Child Malnutrition in India and China/Peter Svedberg. 6.Poverty and the …

restrictions (QR) on rice imports will affect poverty within two world trade scenarios: Doha and free world trade. The impact of … improves and poverty declines across household groups, but the net effects are lower in rural than in urban households. The …

This paper combines household survey and census data to construct a provincial poverty map of Vietnam and evaluate the … accuracy of geographically targeted anti-poverty programs. First, the paper estimates per capita expenditure as a function of … combined with data on the same household characteristics from the 1999 Census to estimate the incidence of poverty in each …

investments on rural poverty. Previous research shows that such targeting is not very accurate unless the geographic units are … small. Household surveys, however, rarely allow the estimation of poverty rates for more than 5-10 regions in a country …. This study develops a method for generating disaggregated poverty maps and applies the method to Viet Nam. First, the …

became visible in the early 1990s when poverty declined to a large extent. Since then, the Vietnamese agricultural sector has …

continued to produce traditional crops and were not able to escape poverty. This finding reaffirms the idea that liberalizing … problems of different subgroups in poverty if the broader poverty issue is to be improved." Authors' Abstract …

poverty has been a widely debated subject in Bangladesh. A number of studies argued that the real agricultural wage rate was …

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

regime of self-reliance that still lingers in China's rural society traps less advanced areas in poverty. …