, one in three persons living in poverty today might not be poor had it not been for the conflict. …Conflicts and political instability have been serious constraints to growth in Guinea-Bissau. Of special concern was … estimates that GDP per capita today could have been more than 40 percent higher if there had been no conflict in 1998. In turn …

of the world. Since the late 1950s, its growth performance has been outstanding. Poverty incidence has declined …

Plan of Action for Food and Nutrition. Other reasons identified include unacceptably high levels of poverty in rural … nutrition considerations and activities into poverty reduction, agricultural development policies, and food security …

Poverty in Nigeria is pervasive although the country is rich in human and material resources that should translate into … National Bureau of Statistics (NBS 2007, about 69 million people were living in poverty, which represents 54.4 percent of the … Nigerian population. Since the 1980s, the Nigerian poverty situation has been deteriorating. …

labor force often living below the poverty line and forming part of the majority of the rural poor in many parts of the …

. Good governance and high and shared growth often top the list of conditions necessary to achieve ethnic peace. How to get … condition to achieve good governance and high growth. Openness acts as a disciplining force on government regardless of whether …