Points out significant opportunities for market-based approaches the meet the needs of the 4 billion people at the base of the economic pyramid.

The private sector can help smallholders to participate in modern supply chains. This type of collaboration will be critical to agricultural development.

Sub-Saharan Africa's (SSA) physical geography is often blamed for its poor economic performance. A country's geographical location does, however, not only determine its agricultural conditions or disease environment. It also pins down a country's relative position vis-à-vis other countries,...

One of the most contentious issues of globalization is the effect of global economic integration on inequality and poverty. This article documents five trends in the modern era of globalization, starting around 1980. The first trend is that growth rates in poor economies have accelerated and are...