, rural poverty. The performance of agriculture in Uttar Pradesh has been found to vary considerably across districts and … regions and has strong linkages and implications for poverty reduction. Irrigation and fertilizer-use are the major … linkages between agricultural productivity and poverty. An increase of 10 per cent in land productivity would reduce poverty by …

poverty gap, which is as high as 50 percentage points or more in some specific cases in Nepal, Pakistan, or India. The gap in …This paper compares the extent and the nature of the higher prevalence of poverty among disadvantaged ethnic groups in …, and analyze the magnitude of the ethnic gap in absolute and relative poverty levels across six countries and different …