Microfinance and Poverty probes a set of assumptions that have arisen about microfinance and poverty reduction and that have become the conventional wisdom, although they have not been proven. These assumptions are examined through a review and analysis of theoretical and applied literature on...

The last Public Expenditure Review for Ecuador (PER) was produced in 1993. More than a decade later, the purpose of this report is to provide the Ecuadorian authorities with the World Bank's and Inter-American Development Bank's joint comprehensive account of their diagnoses and recommendations...

Mushrooms traditionally collected from forests and now more cultivated have recently become the products of the fifth-largest agricultural sector in China. It was estimated that more than 25 million farmers in China are currently engaged in the collection, cultivation processing and marketing of...

This article uses a Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) framework toestimate simultaneously the short-run and long-run relationship between foodprice inflation and poverty reduction in Argentina. Results from thecointegration tests reveal that economic growth, food price inflation andpoverty...

In light of a reinvigorated policy orientation toward agriculture in developing countries following recent dramatic developments affecting food prices and agricultural land use, public resource allocation decisionmakers ought to have access to the existing evidence from academic research on the...

Rural development has been the core focus of the Bangladesh economic policies since her independence. The rural sector is pivotal to the country’s economic, social and political development. This paper examines the Bangladesh rural development policies, strategies and programs since...