Intro -- Contents -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Abstract -- Introduction -- 1 Country Overview -- 2 Economic Change and Poverty in the 1990s -- 3 Nonparametric Decompositions -- 4 Parametric Methods -- 5 Conclusions -- APPENDIX A: ICES Data and Deflators -- APPENDIX B: Density-Reweighting...

A procedure is developed and applied for predicting ex ante impacts of agricultural research on aggregate poverty, using as an example the poverty-reducing impact of peanut research in Uganda. Market-level information on economic surplus changes is combined with a procedure for allocating income...

This article draws on the donor experience in agriculture-sector reforms to analyse the contribution of Poverty and Social Impact Analysis (PSIA) to improved rural policy. A decision-theoretic framework is presented showing that effective PSIAs should target reforms where institutional...

Poverty in Zimbabwe increased significantly during the 1990s, and it increased in all sectors of the economy. In the middle of the decade, more than 60 percent of Zimbabwean households fell below the national poverty line. There are competing reasons for this: some say it was the result of the...