The paper provides the first large-scale survey-based evidence on the impact of the global food crisis of 2007-08 using an indicator of self-assessed food security from the Gallup World Poll. For the sampled countries as a whole, this subjective indicator of food security remained the same or...

Do higher food prices help or hinder poverty reduction? Despite much debate, existing research has almost solely relied on simulation models to address this question. In this paper World Bank poverty estimates are used to systematically test the relationship between changes in poverty and...

This paper uses state data to analyze the impact of agricultural research on reducing urban poverty in India from 1970 to 1995. In addition to substantially reducing rural poverty, agricultural research investments have played a major role in the reduction of urban poverty. Agricultural research...