In India, progress against undernutrition has been slow. Given its importance for income
generation, improving diets, care practices, and maternal health, the agriculture sector is …

While smallholder development has, in the past, led to reductions in poverty and hunger,
does this still apply in today's more globalized world? This paper reviews the debates on the …

The need for a good understanding of the relationship between financial inclusion and
economic growth has become a significant concern in national development. Both sectors …

There are fewer people living in extreme poverty in the world today than 30 years ago. While
that is an achievement, continuing progress for poor people is far from assured. Inequalities …

This study assesses changes over the past decade in the farm size distributions of Ghana,
Kenya, Tanzania, and Zambia, drawing on two or more waves of nationally representative …

En este libro se presentan los resultados de más de un decenio de trabajo realizado en la
Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) con relación a la economía …

Average incomes in the poorest two quintiles on average increase at the same rate as
overall average incomes. This is because, in a global dataset spanning 121 countries over …

Poverty relief programs are shaped by politics. The particular design which social programs
take is to a large extent determined by the existing institutional constraints and politicians' …

The role of agriculture in development remains much debated. This paper takes an empirical
perspective and focuses on poverty, as opposed to growth alone. The contribution of a …

The available evidence suggests that the poor in developing countries typically do share in
the gains from rising aggregate affluence, and in the losses from aggregate contraction. But …