Based on Food and Agriculture Organization data for 15 developing countries, we examine household characteristics, asset bundles and income-generating activities of the rural poor. Assets aid in exiting poverty, not independent of one another, but rather in combination. We develop an approach to...

We draw on previous positive political-economic models, which explain the seeming disjointedness of observed agricultural and resource policies to develop prescriptive implications that can be actively pursued by a smart government. Smart governments would design and implement a portfolio of...