poverty in Madagascar. We show that, controlling for geographical and physical characteristics, communes that have higher … improved agricultural production as an important part of any strategy to reduce the high poverty rates currently prevalent in …

literature on postwar coping and rural poverty at the micro level by estimating potentially endogenous activity choices and …

group, are particularly reliant on agriculture. In summarising key findings on agricultural growth and poverty reduction … from country studies commissioned by the Chronic Poverty Research Centre (CPRC), this paper suggests that agricultural … growth has been a surprisingly important component of poverty exits, and also finds evidence that agricultural growth helps …