incomes is essential to reducing poverty and ensuring the benefits of growth are distributed more equally. Income growth …

The Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Poverty Diagnostic in Mozambique is part of a global initiative to … improve the evidence base on the linkages between WASH, human development, and poverty. The Diagnostic provides a detailed …

translated into modest poverty reduction. Not only poverty fell at slower pace than expected but the gains in income and … poverty rates than rural provinces, particularly those in the central and northern parts of the country. Three factors … groups; (ii) low productivity and market-based growth in agriculture; and (iii) high vulnerability to weather shocks. Growth …

This report relies on several data sources. The main source providing the poverty, inequality and labor figures herein …'s sample was drawn from the 2017 Census and allows for poverty figures to be representative at national and provincial as well … abundant post-harvest periods. The starting point for the analysis is chapter 1, which synthesizes progress in reducing poverty …

. Chapter 1 outlines the main macro and sectoral challenges which underpins the rationale for carrying out the agriculture … results-focused agriculture expenditure action plan …

) set out ambitious goals for reducing poverty and sustainably industrializing so that the country can achieve middle …-income status by 2025. The government recognizes agriculture as central to realizing its objectives of socioeconomic development …, which are well-articulated in the Second Agriculture Sector Development Program (ASDP II). Among the goals of ASDP II are to …

About 80 percent of the poor households in Timor-Leste live in rural areas and are dependent on agriculture for their … livelihood. It is therefore widely acknowledged that growth in the agriculture sector is an important channel through which … poverty can be reduced in the country. That notwithstanding, the country's agricultural production system is one of the least …