Poverty is still a major problem in Pakistan. (...) We have long known that agricultural growth is closely related to … poverty reduction. Recent studies (...) provide massive statistical evidence of this relationship. Rural growth and … agricultural growth have a major effect on poverty reduction; urban growth and manufacturing growth do not. (...) The poor in rural …

sheds light on the relationship between poverty and agriculture as part of the process of structural transformation. It … regional level where the Common Agricultural Program funding tends to go, poverty-wise, within each country. This approach …