correlate estimated expected returns to fertilizer use with geographically disaggregated estimates of headcount poverty rates …. We find a very weak positive correlation between poverty and the expected returns to fertilizer, which calls into … question how spatially distributionally progressive fertilizer subsidies are in helping to reduce poverty among Malawian …

project in the world. Its most direct poverty reduction pathway is through boosting employment and income for the poor. How … effectively this direct transfer mechanism reduces poverty turns fundamentally on the degree to which MGNREGS targets its …

effects on poverty reduction, it is important to first study trends in the allocation of funds, particularly as they relate to …