This paper reviews the contribution of agriculture and rural development to poverty reduction by examining the … based on national statistics on the importance of agriculture and the growth of Gross Domestic Product, the five territories … Peru) that have experienced substantial reductions in poverty. While the four countries fall into three distinct groupings …

rural development (agricultural growth, patterns of growth and rural poverty) for ten Latin American countries over 1985 … reduce rural poverty. …

Understanding the complex relations between trade integration and poverty reduction is now a priority for Latin … the current state of knowledge about trade and poverty and offer contrasting points of view about whether freer trade can … reduce poverty in Latin America. One of the main lessons extracted from the book is that preexisting policies and …

efforts to improve the competitiveness of Brazilian goods, to support the efforts to reduce social inequalities and poverty … communities and small producers thus supporting efforts to reduce inequality and by actions for conservation and protection of the …

poverty in other developing countries can be analysed. It then applies this framework to twelve countries, six in Asia and six …

of poverty rates and inequality levels. We also estimate a heterogeneous response to the mining-abundant condition …, finding stronger responses in lower-poverty, higher-inequality districts. Finally, we find a trend suggesting incremental … activities, on the reduction of poverty and inequality. …

-American Development Bank's Poverty and Inequality Unit is to provide technical leadership for the Bank and its member governments' work in … and the Reduction of Poverty and Inequality; The Importance of Protecting the Poor from the Economic Cost of Illness … the area of poverty reduction, and to contribute to enhancing the quality of the Bank's lending and non-lending activities …