This collection draws together contemporary articles on development economics. Ideal for students with little or no background in economics, it covers a range of themes including poverty, foreign aid, agriculture and human capital

Over the past two decades the agrifood industry in developing countries has undergone rapid modernization. Economic growth, rising incomes, urbanization and the spread of western lifestyles have led to changes in consumption patterns in Asia and parts of Africa. As a result, the domestic demand...

In this paper, we investigate whether and how households adjust their agricultural practices such as cultivation and livestock to adapt to a severe typhoon.We, therefore, make use of a natural experiment coming from the strong typhoon Ketsana in 2009. We apply the difference-in-differences...