/Todd Benson, Michael Epprecht, and Nicholas Minot 5.Child Malnutrition in India and China/Peter Svedberg. 6.Poverty and the …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 …

rest of the economy, and although the incidence of poverty has declined, it still remains high. The Zambian government … agricultural growth will not be sufficient to meet the first Millennium Development Goal (MDG1) of halving poverty by 2015. To … poverty line by 2015, and significantly improve the well-being of both rural and urban households." from authors' abstract …

Millennium Development Goal of halving poverty by 2015 (MDG1) in 30 sub-Saharan African countries. This method uses growth-poverty … direct and indirect impacts of agricultural spending on poverty reduction. The paper attempts to address a key knowledge gap …

well as the rest of the economy in recent years, and while the incidence of poverty has declined, it is still substantially … currently on track to achieve the first Millennium Development Goal of halving poverty by 2015, achieving the CAADP growth … target should remain a high priority, since it will substantially reduce the number of people living below the poverty line …

Plan of Action for Food and Nutrition. Other reasons identified include unacceptably high levels of poverty in rural … nutrition considerations and activities into poverty reduction, agricultural development policies, and food security …

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 …

Investment Priorities for Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction in Asia Shenggen Fan, Joanna Brzeska, and Ghada Shields …

"...Today, 1.1 billion people live on less than one US dollar per day (the internationally recognized poverty threshold … extreme poverty and hunger 2. Achieve universal primary education 3. Promote gender equality and empower women 4. Reduce child …

"...Today, 1.1 billion people live on less than one US dollar per day (the internationally recognized poverty threshold … extreme poverty and hunger 2. Achieve universal primary education 3. Promote gender equality and empower women 4. Reduce child …