measuring both the preferences and understanding of rural populations in the developing world. This is vitally important for … elicitation mechanisms, using samples drawn from the rural population in Senegal, West Africa. Whatever the intellectual merits of … at the possible cost of seriously diminished levels of comprehension or nonincentivized questions in the rural developing …

Poverty is a rural phenomenon in most of the developing world, especially the low-income developing countries. The … rural poor make up more than 75 percent of the poor in many Sub-Saharan African and Asian countries. Accelerated public … investments are needed to facilitate agricultural and rural growth. These investments need to be supported by an enabling policy …

-poor agricultural growth and of policies that can promote such growth in poor rural economies in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa … difficulties in today's poor rural areas in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Some of these difficulties are endogenous to these … development in poor rural areas. This broad hypothesis was tested in an analysis of the returns (in agricultural growth and …