individuals still live after decades of mixed progress. Evidence shows that poverty reduction on its own will not do the job of … eradicating hunger, nor will only increased food production. The region's contribution to high and volatile international food … changing composition of future food demand in the region will depend on the extent to which poverty reduction effectively leads …

Although resilience has become a popular concept in studies of poverty and vulnerability, it has been difficult to …

the shocks. Finally, it estimates vulnerability to poverty by modeling both households' expected consumption and their …This paper provides new insight into the poverty, malnutrition and vulnerability issues in Mali, using existing … conventional knowledge about poverty, food poverty, and malnutrition. The prevalence of chronic malnutrition is high in Mali, with …

critically affect the link between poverty and malnutrition and would affect the implications for policies designed to improve …

undernourishment (hunger), largely through gaining farmers and others access to productivity-enhancing equipment, translating into …

indicator, differences in inequality between countries are not statistically significant; 6) even if attention is restricted to … the cross-country differences in inequality that are statistically significant, interesting conclusions emerge, Egypt, and … stunting than Egypt, and higher poor-non-poor inequality. But many countries do well on one count, and badly on the other …

between economic growth and income inequity. We develop a simple model to establish that economic growth and inequality can …) economies are two-fold: first, we observed that for low values of economic growth, inequality and growth bear an inverted U … relationship between growth and inequality can take the form of a wave. Secondly, we examine the issue of the existence of …

convinced that higher growth would reduce income poverty to an acceptable margin, there appears to be little concrete policy … possibly rising inequality would ensure that a great many would fall through the cracks, and not benefit from high growth, even …This paper focuses on the role of institutions in poverty alleviation, where both poverty and institutions are …

poverty measures since 1970, with an acceleration post-1991, despite rising inequality. Faster poverty decline came with …Longstanding development issues are revisited in the light of a newly-constructed data set of poverty measures for … higher growth and a more pro-poor pattern of growth. Post-1991 data suggest stronger inter-sectoral linkages: urban …