Down to Earth: Agriculture and Poverty Reduction in Africa, Part 748World Bank, 2007 - 105 pages This book contributes to the debate about the role of agriculture in poverty reduction by addressing three sets of questions: (1) Does investing in agriculture enhance/harm overall economicgrowth, and if so, under what conditions? (2) Do poor people tend to participate more/less in growth in agriculture than in growth in other sectors, and if so, when? (3) If a focus on agriculturewould tend to yield larger participation by the poor, butslower overall growth, which strategy would tend to have the largest payoff in terms of poverty reduction, andunder which conditions? |
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access to credit agricultural and nonagricultural agricultural growth agricultural productivity Agriculture 0.7 Agriculture in Poverty Christiaensen 2006 coefficients computable general equilibrium consumption cross-country Development economic growth effect of agricultural effect of growth elasticity of poverty empirical Engel's Law estimated Ethiopia factors farm farmers fertilizer food buyers food prices gain GDP elasticity GDP growth GDP/cap growth growth effect growth in agriculture growth rates growth x poverty headcount poverty household surveys impact income quintile increase in agricultural inefficiency InterAcademy Council irrigation Kenya Kilimanjaro kilograms labor low-income countries Madagascar maize Mimeo modern inputs nonagricultural growth nonagricultural sectors output overall p-value Coeff panel participation effect percent percentage points poor poverty gap poverty headcount poverty line poverty line/average income poverty reduction productivity growth quintile reducing poverty Role of Agriculture rural households sample Sarris Savastano smallholder South Asia staple crop Sub-Saharan Africa substantial Tanzania total factor productivity World Bank World Bank 2005b