Books Reviewed: Arun Agrawal, Greener Pastures: Politics, Markets and Community among a Migrant Pastoral People Gerald C. Nelson, Genetically Modified Organisms in Agriculture: Economics and Politics Christiane Kraus, Import Tariffs as Environmental Policy Instruments Vandana Shiva, Stolen...

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...

This paper provides an explanation of the relation between agricultural growth and poverty reduction for open economies with full employment. The analysis also shows that the poverty-reducing impact of agricultural growth in an open economy is far greater if there is unemployed labour or if the...

Poverty is still a major problem in Pakistan. Worse, the excellent progress made in poverty reduction in the 1970s and 1980s has been reversed in the 1990s. That is the bad news. The good news is that Pakistan is unusually well placed to return to rapid reduction in poverty. We have long known...