insecurity, and rural poverty. Table of Contents: •Overview: Pathways, Drivers, and Spaces by Johannes F. Linn •Investing in … Agriculture to Reduce Poverty and Hunger by Kevin Cleaver •Moving Local- and Community-Driven Development from Boutique to Large … Reduction of Maternal and Child Undernutrition? by David Nabarro, Purnima Menon, Marie Ruel, and Sivan Yosef •Alive & Thrive …

In most developing countries, poverty is more widespread and severe in rural than in urban areas. The author reviews … some important aspects of rural poverty and draws key implications for public policy. He presents a policy framework for … reducing poverty, taking into account the functional differences and overlap between the rural poor. Several policy options are …

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, particularly through economic investments, and offers new perspectives …

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, particularly through economic investments, and offers new perspectives …

The objectives of this paper are: measure the prevalence of rural poverty in 1997 and 2000, based on the nationwide … Tegemeo survey; categorize households according to whether they were above the poverty line in both 1997 and 2000, entered … into poverty or exited from poverty between 1997 and 2000, or were above the poverty line in both years; identifies the …

equilibrium model for Syria. Results show that growth in economic output (GDP)during drought years can be close to one percentage … capital, incomes and higher food/feed prices. Poverty levels increase by about 0.3 to 1.2 percentage points during an average … drought and stay above “non-drought levels†even when the drought is over. Poor farm households are hardest hit, followed …