poverty in other developing countries can be analysed. It then applies this framework to twelve countries, six in Asia and six …

growth and its contribution to economic growth since 1980 in Asia; and a review of two recent and comprehensive volumes on …

escaped poverty in Asia during the late 2000s if food prices had not increased during the period. Thus, long- and shortterm …Ensuring a secure supply of food is essential, given the world’s (and especially Asia’s) growing population, high and … insecurity in Asia and points to ways to mitigate it. The world’s population has now reached 7 billion, and is projected to …

poverty alleviation and reducing unemployment has not been fully utilized. The main objective of this study is to provide an … returns on these flows to make them productive? Based on experiences in some countries of the Arab World, Africa and Southeast … Asia, our study will show that good governance and tax exemption may be significant factors in increasing charitable giving …

Those who study global poverty and ways to reduce it face a perennial set of questions: Do advances in knowledge … benefits? The contributors to Agricultural Research, Livelihoods, and Poverty shed light on these questions through a … collection of case studies that explore the types of impact that agricultural research has had on livelihoods and poverty in low …

Public Expenditures, Growth, and Poverty assesses the efficacy of poverty reduction programs in Latin America, Africa … safety net programs and a chapter devoted solely to the vexing poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, Public Expenditures, Growth …, and Asia by synthesizing studies conducted by the International Food Policy Research Institute over the past ten years …

world economy the impact of globalization on poverty reduction has been uneven. Asia has been the major beneficiary of … globalization where high growth rates and its labor-intensive pattern contributed to a spectacular reduction in poverty. In contrast … instances, to an informalization of the labor force. In spite of opening up, the failure of sub-Saharan Africa to diversify and …