The book analyzes causes of rural poverty and constraints impeding agricultural productivity during the last four decades under three different regimes. It first examines the feudalistic system under Haile Selassie; then the command economic system of the DERG regime; and finally the current...

The purpose of this study is to examine the evolution and the determining factors of the poverty in Cartagena during the period 2002-2005. We used a probabilistic model (probit) to identify the individual characteristics that explain the incidence of the poverty in this city, the main Colombian...