insuring poor people both lessens the affliction of poverty and allows poor people to participate in income growth. This set of …

Poverty Reduction Strategy (GPRS II) and reaching middle-income status by 2015. Using data from the recent Ghana Living … productivity, and (iii) agriculture income per capita, this paper analyzes the constraints and opportunities for raising …

(road) development on household income growth and nonagricultural labor supply. The empirical results show that the impacts … of improvements in local road quality (which positively correlate with transportation speed) on income growth and the … increasing income growth and nonagricultural labor income in remote areas. The gain from improvements in local connectivity …

"This study examines the sources of crop income growth in Indian agriculture over the 1980s and 1990s. Using a method … developed by Minot (2003), the analysis decomposes crop income growth into the contribution of yield increases, area expansion … level, technology (higher yield) was the main source of crop income growth during 1980s, while rising prices and …

Recent research from IFPRI and its partners shows the potential for income growth to improve nutritional status …. Encouragingly, income growth indeed contributes to improved nutritional status in 12 countries studied. The authors show how … nutrition programs can reduce malnutrition faster, how better nutrition will raise income. They conclude that income affects …

overall income growth in these countries." from Authors' Summary …

movement across income categories in the World Development Reports over a significant period of time. The results confirm the …

estimation methods." from authors' abstract …