This paper assembles data at the all-India level and for the village of Palanpur, Uttar Pradesh, to document the … mobility among the poorest segments of rural society. Efforts by the government of India to accelerate the process of … transformation currently underway in rural India …

. Using data from the World Bank's Living Standards Measurement Study–Integrated Surveys on Agriculture in Malawi and Tanzania …

commercial agriculture and have witnessed greater reductions in land area compared with their male counterparts. The results show … are the three most promising policy options to reach gender parity in agriculture in C?te d'Ivoire …

Agriculture remains an important economic sector in Africa, employing a large share of the labor force and earning …

crisis of 2008. This paper assesses the role of agriculture and the Common Agricultural Program in achieving this. The paper … sheds light on the relationship between poverty and agriculture as part of the process of structural transformation. It … as evaluating the role of agriculture as a driver of shared prosperity. The analysis performed throughout the paper uses …

This paper exploits the social organization of India to revisit the question of education spillovers in farm … productivity. The fact that social interactions mainly occur within castes in rural India provides tools to show that the observed …

Through a review of the literature, this paper examines the links of food and agriculture with nutrition in South Asia …