Three billion people will be added to the world ' s population over the next 50 years and 2.8 billion people today already live on less than $2 a day-almost all in developing countries. Ensuring these people have access to productive work and a better quality of life is the core development...

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Roadmap to World Development Report 2003 -- 1 Achievements and Challenges -- 2 Managing a Broader Portfolio of Assets -- 3 Institutions for Sustainable Development -- 4 Improving Livelihoods on Fragile Lands -- 5 Transforming Institutions on Agricultural Land --...

This book examines the role of agriculture in the economic transformation of developing low- and middle-income countries and explores means for accelerating agricultural growth and poverty reduction. In this volume, Mellor measures by household class the employment impact of alternative...