The stated aim of much development assistance is the reduction of poverty. This book examines how development interventions might be more effectively targeted to achieve this aim. Part One provides an overview of planning for poverty reduction, and evidence on the extent and causes of poverty....

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...