The paper reviews the role of small farms in development and poverty reduction in countries (or regions within a … country) with persistent mass poverty. It discusses the arguments supporting the importance of agricultural development for … poverty and argues that initial success in reduction of mass poverty requires prior agricultural developments. It explores in …

liberalization on poverty – considering both the impact of domestic and international liberalization. Since trade liberalization is …

This paper analyzes the roles of agriculture in reducing poverty. Following the methodology proposed by López (2002 …), three channels by which agricultural growth reduces poverty are tested: (i) its effects on the real wage of unskilled … expansion is dramatic. Agricultural growth tends to improve all measures of poverty significantly with head count falling around …

, growth generated by the boom reduces poverty despite increasing informality. …

system of social assistance (SA) which is not overly generous and to growing poverty. Nevertheless, econometric analysis …

The aim of this study is to give a broad picture of the income distribution and the level of inequality and poverty in … Community Household Panel and the Household Budget Survey. The results obtained consistently point to a very unequal … distribution of income, with high levels of inequality associated with high poverty rates. These main findings are not influenced …