rural poverty alleviation, but also for successful industrialisation. …Argues that strategies encouraging surplus extraction from agriculture, combined with stalled industrialisation … constitute the root causes of persistent rural poverty. Suggests that an agriculture-first strategy is necessary not only for …

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper examining rural area poverty trends and causes with a view to strategies for rural … development in developing countries - discusses origins of poverty relating to unequal distribution of land ownership and public …

, etc.; stresses the need for land reform. Bibliography. …

for low income groups; calls for popular participation and community participation. Bibliography, statistical tables. …

ILO pub-WEP pub-PREALC pub. Working paper on development policy, basic needs and poverty in Ecuador - discusses …

, obstacles to labour market expansion, impact on peasant farmer poverty, etc.; includes case studies of three regions; outlines …. Bibliography and graph. …

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on nature and trends of rural area poverty and income distribution in Costa Rica … income. Bibliography, statistical tables. …

poverty. References. …

implications for rural development, based on the case of India. Analyses traditional theories of industrialization and their …