Down to Earth: Agriculture and Poverty Reduction in AfricaWorld Bank Publications, 2007 - 105 pages This book contributes to the debate about the role of agriculture in poverty reduction by addressing three sets of questions: Does investing in agriculture enhance/harm overall economic growth, and if so, under what conditions? Do poor people tend to participate more/less in growth in agriculture than in growth in other sectors, and if so, when? If a focus on agriculture would tend to yield larger participation by the poor, but slower overall growth, which strategy would tend to have the largest payoff in terms of poverty reduction, and under which conditions? |
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... Economy 67 Chapter 6 A Sectoral Decomposition of Poverty Change 73 Chapter 7 Concluding Observations 77 Appendix 1 Objectives of and Data Sources for Case Studies 83 Appendix 2 Data Sources and Constructs Used in Case Studies 85 ...
... Economy 67 Chapter 6 A Sectoral Decomposition of Poverty Change 73 Chapter 7 Concluding Observations 77 Appendix 1 Objectives of and Data Sources for Case Studies 83 Appendix 2 Data Sources and Constructs Used in Case Studies 85 ...
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... economy could more than compensate. The World Bank's introduction of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers has rekindled this debate about the role of agriculture. Can agriculture deliver more poverty reduction than other sectors? On ...
... economy could more than compensate. The World Bank's introduction of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers has rekindled this debate about the role of agriculture. Can agriculture deliver more poverty reduction than other sectors? On ...
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... economy models,1 popular in the 1950s and 1960s, typically treated agriculture as a backward subsistence sector from ... economic growth, even though agriculture itself was likely to grow at a slower pace than other sectors. They also ...
... economy models,1 popular in the 1950s and 1960s, typically treated agriculture as a backward subsistence sector from ... economic growth, even though agriculture itself was likely to grow at a slower pace than other sectors. They also ...
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... economic miracle in East Asia further fueled this resurgence of “agro-pessimism,” especially concerning Sub-Saharan Africa. This miracle is usually attributed to export-led growth strategies focused on labor-intensive manufacturing, but ...
... economic miracle in East Asia further fueled this resurgence of “agro-pessimism,” especially concerning Sub-Saharan Africa. This miracle is usually attributed to export-led growth strategies focused on labor-intensive manufacturing, but ...
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... economic growth is questionable. The debate about the role of agriculture in poverty reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa calls for an empirical assessment of three sets of questions. First, how can agricultural performance be improved and ...
... economic growth is questionable. The debate about the role of agriculture in poverty reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa calls for an empirical assessment of three sets of questions. First, how can agricultural performance be improved and ...
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0.7 x service access to credit agricul agricultural and nonagricultural agricultural growth agricultural productivity Agriculture in Poverty Christiaensen 2006 coefficients computable general equilibrium consumption cross-country economic growth economy effect of agricultural effect of growth elasticity of poverty 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 survey impact income quintile inefficiency InterAcademy Council irrigation Kenya Kilimanjaro kilograms labor Latin America 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 wage World Bank 2005b
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