challenge, the food price spikes also have created a unique opportunity to address poverty and hunger. …For decades, despite widespread hunger and severe malnutrition in developing countries there was little attention to … funding for it, while global malnutrition has not increased and poverty declined over the past years. Mass media played a …

for economic development. In this paper we document and discuss these changes; including the rapid growth and structural … for economic development, income mobility and poverty reduction in rural areas. …