After summarizing the debate on rural poverty, the article focusses on some aspects of the relationship between rural poverty and agricultural growth. Absolute impoverishment among cultivating households is analysed. It is shown that a reduction in income from cultivation, combined with a...

The objective of this paper is to examine how agricultural and nonagricultural labor productivities have grown over time and whether the growth pattern affected poverty in low- and middle-income economies in Asia. We first examine whether labor productivities in the agricultural and...

Drawing upon a cross-country panel data for developing countries, the present study sheds new empirical light on dynamic and long-term linkages among growth, inequality and poverty. First, agricultural sector growth is found to be consistently the most important factor in reducing inequality and...