Zambia during the 1990s, and to explore the poverty impacts of non-traditional export growth. We look at consumption and …In this paper, we have two main objectives: to investigate the links between globalization and poverty observed in … market agriculture activities (such as growing cotton, tobacco, hybrid maize) and rural labor markets and wages. We find that …

"This paper investigates the impacts of cotton marketing reforms on farm productivity, a key element for poverty … alleviation, in rural Zambia. The reforms comprised the elimination of the Zambian cotton marketing board that was in place since …

value of family labor, 20% below their outside option in non-agriculture …

evidence on the forces that drive research and innovation in agriculture. This book aims to provides such evidence through …

U.S. agriculture was transformed during the 20th century by waves of innovation with mechanical, biological, chemical …, and information technologies. Compared with a few decades ago, today's agriculture is much less labor intensive and farms …

effect of at scale drug provision in a poor country, using the phased roll-out of ART in Zambia, a setting where …

countries that have had large-scale school construction projects, Indonesia and Zambia. Consistent with the model, we find that … Indonesia, as well as a similar program in Zambia, we find evidence consistent with this prediction. Although the program had no …

. A case study for India's massive National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme indicates lower impacts on poverty than … in terms of the impact on poverty for a given budgetary outlay …