This paper reviews the feedbacks between structural transformation and agriculture, on the one hand, and climate and … exploration concerning structural transformation and the complex feedback among agriculture, nature, and economic growth processes …

This paper reviews the feedbacks between structural transformation and agriculture, on the one hand, and climate and … exploration concerning structural transformation and the complex feedback among agriculture, nature, and economic growth processes …

In this world of plenty, almost half of the world's six billion people live on two dollars a day or less and the number … living on less than one dollar a day has increased over the past fifteen years (World Bank 2000). Between one third and one …, iodine and iron. More than one child in five lives in acute poverty. Why does such unnecessary injustice continue to …

Globalization brings the suffering of the world's poor directly to the attention of those fortunate to have been born … 18% of the world's population - lived on less than roughly $1/day per person and were thus classified as "extremely poor …" by global standards (Chen and Ravallion 2007). Indeed, outside of China, the developing world has not enjoyed any …

Millennium Development Goal #1 is to halve extreme poverty ($1/day per person) and hunger. Progress toward this goal … health, malnutrition and ultra-poverty are mutually reinforcing states that add to the challenge of addressing any one of … agriculture is the primary employment sector for the ultra-poor and because food consumes a very large share of the expenditures …

A sound understanding of poverty traps — defined as poverty that is self-reinforcing due to the poor's equilibrium … poverty traps at the macro-, meso-, and, especially, microlevels. In addition we review the literature exploring the various … mechanisms that have been posited to perpetuate poverty. We find sufficient evidence to support the poverty traps hypothesis …

create and perpetuate vulnerability. We then consider the related micro-level poverty traps that emerging analysis attributes …

poor - the connection between debt forgiveness and poverty reduction is loose at best. As I have argued previously, the … case for debt forgiveness for the world's poorest countries, particularly those in sub-Saharan Africa, remains both …

Globalization brings the suffering of the world's poor directly to the attention of those fortunate to have been born …