While agricultural growth has been recognized as the key to poverty alleviation in most developing countries, recent experience suggests that this is often not enough. The alleviation of rural food insecurity and poverty hinges critically on the responce of rural nonfarm areas to the stimulus...

The paper reexamine the nature of the growth-poverty-inequality nexus in the Philippines during the second half of the 1980s and the first half of the 1990s. It gives new estimates of national and spatial poverty, assesses the relative contributions of growth and redistribution to the observed...

Recent discussions of public policy in developing countries have frequently called attention to the need for reducing high income disparities among regions and between urban and rural areas. This paper examines the relative influence of regional differences in household access to land,...