Investments are the gamble on the future of a community. Their benefits span over the present. They stimulate aggregate demand. They have positive effects on expectations as well as spin-offs in terms of knowledge and innovation. Their benefits also project into the future adding productive...

Specific questions to be addressed, with reference to both developing and developed countries, are the following: - Is agriculture playing a buffer role against the global crisis? - How the crisis has changed the pro-poor features of agricultural growth? - What are the impacts of crisis on...