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Equitable access to land as a means of poverty reduction in rural china

Hao, Yan - Abteilung "Ungleichheit und soziale Integration", … - 2011

In China, as in many developing countries, poverty is primarily a rural phenomenon. Considerable efforts have been made over the last few decades to reduce poverty in China's rural areas; and indeed, the poverty rate in these areas has fallen from 30.7% in 1978 to 3.8% in 2009. This paper begins...

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The Geography of American Poverty: Is There a Need for Place-Based Policies?

Partridge, Mark D.; Rickman, Dan S. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

Partridge and Rickman explore the underlying spatial, demographic, and economic contributors to poverty rates and examine the spatial variation of state and county poverty rates and their trends over time. They conclude that a unique combination of place-based and person-based policies is needed...

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Policies and lessons for reaching indigenous peoples in development programs:

Bage, Lennart - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2007

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Agricultural technology choices for poor farmers in less-favored areas of South and East Asia:

Pender, John - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2007

"During the past several decades dramatic improvement has occurred in agricultural productivity and livelihoods in South and East Asia, stimulated by the Green Revolution and supported by several other factors. Nevertheless, hundreds of millions of rural people in less-favored environments of...

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Understanding the multifaceted attributes to rural poverty while assessing the water-poverty-climate change linkage in the Indian Eastern Himalaya

Barua, Anamika; Katyaini, Suparana; Mili, Bhupen - In: International Journal of Green Economics 6 (2012) 1, pp. 73-94

Rural livelihoods depend extensively on water resources. Continued climate change may put the lives and livelihoods of rural poor under greater risk, due to lack of water. Yet poverty is a multifaceted and complex issue, as there are numerous factors which lead to poverty. To presume that there...

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Cooperatives for staple crop marketing: Evidence from Ethiopia

Bernard, Tanguy; Spielman, David J.; Seyoum Taffesse, … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2010

Rural producer organizations, such as farmers' organizations or rural cooperatives, offer a means for smallholder farmers in developing countries to sell their crops commercially. They hold particular promise for Sub-Saharan Africa, where small-scale farming is the primary livelihood but...

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Building on the positive: an actor innovation systems approach to finding and promoting pro poor natural resources institutional and technical innovations

Biggs, Stephen - In: International Journal of Agricultural Resources, … 6 (2007) 2, pp. 144-164

This paper argues that if policies and programmes for the promotion of rural and agricultural technological and institutional innovations are restricted to the framework of the linear 'pipeline' model of R&D and extension, then many opportunities for reducing rural poverty and improving social...

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Building on the positive: an actor innovation systems approach to finding and promoting pro poor natural resources institutional and technical innovations

Biggs, Stephen - In: International Journal of Agricultural Resources, … 6 (2007) 2, pp. 144-164

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008564121

Assessing the Vulnerability of Agricultural Households to Macroeconomic Shocks: Evidence from Mexico

Rubio, Gloria M.; Soloaga, Isidro - In: eJADE: electronic Journal of Agricultural and … 1 (2004) 1

This paper uses cross-sectional data from Mexico before and after the 1994 peso crisis to analyze rural household …

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Agricultural Policy and Rural Poverty in Mexico

Scott, John - Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) - 2007

Agriculture and rural development policies in Mexico have experienced a profound reform process over the last two …, though average public expenditure in agricultural support and rural development in Mexico is modest by OECD standards, it is … aggravating, rather than reducing original, asset-based inequality in Mexico. …

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