This lecture presents seven inter-related points. 1) The poor continue to depend on staples for income and progress, via consumption, prices, nutrition, employment, farm income, and overall rural income...
The report examines three proximate causes of falls in private consumption poverty: the average person's lifetime consumption rises; the distribution of lifetime consumption shifts towards the initially...
The incidence of poverty has fallen in most regions of the world since 1945. Yet despite decolonization and an expanding world economy, huge numbers of people remain poor, even in some countries that have...
In this analysis of public policy to reduce poverty, the authors point out, among other things, that typically the highest incidence and severity of poverty are still found in rural areas, especially if...
Many governments in developing countries, donors, and nongovernmental organizations have been trying to use their resources in ways that steer the benefits towards poor people. Sharp discontinuities exist...
Does the utilization of modern varieties or MVs in plant cultivation really help the poor? This paper takes a look at this issue and examines the evidence on effects of MVs on poor people as producers...
Is private access to land the main insurance against rural poverty? Alternative forms of insurance such as customary, cooperative, collective, or common-property terms; off-farm income; access to "free"...
This report, which is one of four related papers, on characteristics of poor and ultra-poor people, identifies: (i) food-related indicators of how many people are ultra-poor and moderately poor; and (ii)...
