, inclusion, and sustainability in a developing country context. The findings are summarized and methodologies are critically …

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

The developing world is experiencing substantial environmental change, and climate change is likely to accelerate these … processes in the coming decades. Due to their initial poverty and their relatively high dependence on environmental capital for …. Economic growth is essential for any large-scale poverty reduction. Green growth, a growth process that is sensitive to …

toward the end of 2010). Yet, between 2000-04 and 2005-09 world cotton production increased 13 percent. This paper … conjectures that biotechnology-induced productivity improvements increased supplies by China and India, which, in addition to … biotechnology. By contrast, with a single exception, Africa has not adopted biotechnology and, not coincidentally, its cotton output …

a world with high inequalities than in a more equal world. In the long run, impacts could be much stronger, with global …

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

This paper provides new insight into the poverty, malnutrition and vulnerability issues in Mali, using existing … the shocks. Finally, it estimates vulnerability to poverty by modeling both households' expected consumption and their … 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 …

accumulation of human capital, built via public expenditures in education and health. Four possible fiscal rules are examined for … total public investment in infrastructure, education, and health in the context of a sustainable resource fund: the spend … structure of investment between infrastructure, education, and health. The model is applied to Kenya. For impacts on the non …