market functioning and policymaking must be addressed. First, governments must reinvest in agriculture with a focus on public … information on food stocks, stricter WTO regulation of export restrictions, and some form of globally managed buffer stock will be …

The role of agriculture in development remains much debated. This paper takes an empirical perspective and focuses on … evidence indicates that agriculture is significantly more effective than nonagriculture in reducing poverty among the poorest … not fundamentally unequal. However, when it comes to the better-off poor (reflected in the $2-day measure), non-agriculture …

Using 2000-04 panel data this study analyses the pathways rural households followed out of poverty in two lagging … provinces of China, Inner Mongolia and Gansu. Rising labour productivity in agriculture has been key, and still holds much … highlight that the scope for reducing poverty in lagging rural regions is often substantial in agriculture, also in countries …