poor groups to reduce their poverty and social exclusion. To this end, SC is defined as the ability to obtain benefits from …

In most developing countries, poverty is more widespread and severe in rural than in urban areas. The author reviews … some important aspects of rural poverty and draws key implications for public policy. He presents a policy framework for … reducing poverty, taking into account the functional differences and overlap between the rural poor. Several policy options are …

poverty remains particularly high for food farmers who, as a group, saw only a marginal improvement in welfare in the 1990s …. For the same time period poverty also stagnated or increased in the Northern and Upper regions were most farmers produce … did not benefit from economic growth. This polarization of inequality and poverty makes targeted policies and projects to …