Poverty has a high social cost for countries of the region: it negatively affects all aspects of society because of migration to the cities, destabilizing political consequences, and the pressures that poverty exerts on the environment. This book looks for new ways to alleviate rural poverty,...

Poverty has a high social cost for countries of the region: it negatively affects all aspects of society because of migration to the cities, destabilizing political consequences, and the pressures that poverty exerts on the environment. This book looks for new ways to alleviate rural poverty,...

El objetivo del estudio es mostrar cómo han evolucionado las economías en Pomacanchi y Yanamarca —denominadas originalmente por Daniel Cotlear como “tradicional” y “moderna”)— en las últimas dos décadas y qué rol ha tenido la política pública, tanto aquella que es común a...

En un contexto de debate acerca del futuro de la sociedad rural en el Perú, esta publicación busca contribuir con algunas conclusiones y hallazgos de investigaciones realizadas en el seno del Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo (GRADE). Aquí, se publican tres ponencias del Seminario...

European policy increasingly supports territorially based rural development in which local actors play a decisive role in realising economically, socially and ecologically responsible development. This paper makes use of four case-studies, from a largely depopulated mountainous area in Galicia,...

This strategic paper discusses Ethiopia’s growth and transformation plan (GTP) for the periods 2010/2011 and 2014/2015. The Ethiopian government’s main development agenda has been poverty eradication. The government has designed, and is implementing, strategies, policies, and plans...

The volume contains the papers accepted and published in the proceedings of the 3rd International symposium entitled: ‘Agrarian Economy and Rural Development - realities and perspectives for Romania’, organized by the Institute of Research for Agricultural Economics and Rural Development,...