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 … of the ultra-poor. The causal mechanisms underpinning the poverty trap in which ultra-poor, unhealthy and undernourished …

food market development to facilitate poverty alleviation and economic growth. There are obvious risks to using food aid …

Poverty traps and resource degradation in the rural tropics appear to have multiple and complex, but similar, causes … empirically remains a challenge, however, but one essential to the design of appropriate interventions for reducing poverty and …