gains and poverty reduction. The analysis uses a social welfare function to simulate the optimal allocation of research and … development (R&D) investment across developing regions (1) to maximize agricultural growth or (2) to maximize poverty reduction at … different values of R&D and poverty elasticities on the optimal allocation of R&D investment across regions. Our simulation …

The recent global food and financial crises have reversed the last decade's progress in reducing hunger and poverty …

Millennium Development Goal of halving poverty by 2015 (MDG1) in 30 sub-Saharan African countries. This method uses growth-poverty … direct and indirect impacts of agricultural spending on poverty reduction. The paper attempts to address a key knowledge gap …

reduce poverty. In short run, the oil-biofuels nexus was clearly the driving force behind the surge in food prices, but … prices rose sharply in many countries and that global poverty levels have increased markedly. The good news is that the … out, but it is clear that additional people will fall into poverty and become food insecure. In the long run, there are …