Low productivity and farmer business competitiveness are central issues for agricultural development and rural poverty … alleviation. This study aimed to determine the influence of agricultural development on rural poverty alleviation. Data were … showed that agricultural development improves farm business performance and influences rural poverty alleviation. Farm …

on the West. The focus is on agriculture and the major effects of a deliberate restructuring of an agrarian economy as … seen through the lens of the peasant, the village and poverty. This unique socioeconomic review of Turkey, which is … window to the reality of development at a time when the philosophy for growth underpinning development is facing an …

urbanization patterns differ substantially, with some countries fostering migration out of agriculture into rural off farm … middle (the rural nonfarm economy and secondary towns) yields more inclusive growth patterns and faster poverty reduction …As countries develop, they restructure away from agriculture and urbanize. But structural transformation and …

growth originating in the rest of the economy. The power of agriculture comes not only from its direct poverty reduction … rapid growth in agriculture has opened pathways out of poverty for farming households. While the effectiveness of …Agricultural growth has long been recognized as an important instrument for poverty reduction. Yet, measurements of …

Gap. The estimated urbanization elasticities of poverty indicate that at growth rates, a 1 percentage point increase in …-step system generalized methods of moments to investigate the effect of urbanization on the Poverty Headcount ratio and Poverty … urbanization rate induces 0.04 and 0.05 (0.07 and 0.09) percentage points decrease in the Poverty Headcount ratio and Poverty Gap …

methods for the analysis of poverty within a social exclusion framework. The first chapter provides an overview of the …

Spatial poverty comparisons are investigated in three African countries using multidimensional indicators of well …-being. The work is analogous to the univariate stochastic dominance literature in that it seeks poverty orderings that are robust … to the choice of multidimensional poverty lines and indices. In addition, the study seeks to ensure that the comparisons …

This paper analyzes poverty in Haiti based on the first Living Conditions Survey of 7,186 households covering the whole … country and representative at the regional level. Using a USD1 a day extreme poverty line, the analysis reveals that 49 … percent of Haitian households live in absolute poverty. Twenty, 56, and 58 percent of households in metropolitan, urban, and …

The asymmetric impact of urbanisation on poverty reduction was examined for South Africa employing data from 1990 to … 2022. The study was motivated by the need to establish the effects of positive and negative shocks on poverty reduction … surge in poverty levels. The study found that positive and negative shocks of urbanisation are only instrumental in poverty …