poverty. To this end, we use a new cross-country panel dataset consisting of 146 rural and urban poverty “spells” for 70 low …- and middle-income countries. We find that rural (urban) poverty is highly responsive to agricultural (non …-agricultural) productivity growth. The effect of agricultural productivity growth on rural poverty is particularly strong for countries with …

group, are particularly reliant on agriculture. In summarising key findings on agricultural growth and poverty reduction … from country studies commissioned by the Chronic Poverty Research Centre (CPRC), this paper suggests that agricultural … growth has been a surprisingly important component of poverty exits, and also finds evidence that agricultural growth helps …