Investigation of the rural economic policy of 1978 with particular reference to income distribution among the peasants. Taxes, investment, prices, quotas, production and marketing in agriculture. Year-to-year increases of total peasant income 1978-81. A new array of economic problems created by...

One of every two people in Sub-Saharan Africa survives on less than $1.25 a day. That proportion has changed little over the past three decades, unlike in Asia and elsewhere, so the region's share of global poverty has risen from one-tenth to almost one-third since 1980. About 70 percent of...