Christiaensen, LucDemery, Lionel2012-05-292012-05-292007978-0-8213-6854-1https://hdl.handle.net/10986/6624This book contributes to the debate about the role of agriculture in poverty reduction by addressing three sets of questions: Does investing in agriculture enhance/harm overall economic growth, and if so, under what conditions? Do poor people tend to participate more/less in growth in agriculture than in growth in other sectors, and if so, when? If a focus on agriculture would tend to yield larger participation by the poor, but slower overall growth, which strategy would tend to have the largest payoff in terms of poverty reduction, and under which conditions?en-USCC BY 3.0 IGOACCESS TO HEALTH SERVICESAGGREGATE OUTPUTAGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENTAGRICULTURAL EXTENSIONAGRICULTURAL GROWTHAGRICULTURAL INCOMESAGRICULTURAL OUTPUTAGRICULTURAL PERFORMANCEAGRICULTURAL POLICYAGRICULTURAL PRICESAGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIONAGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITYAGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY GROWTHAGRICULTURAL SECTORAGRICULTURAL SECTORSAVERAGE GROWTHAVERAGE INCOMEAVERAGE INCOMESBENCHMARKCOMPARATIVE ADVANTAGECONSUMPTION POVERTYCOUNTRY CASECOUNTRY DATACROSS-COUNTRY ANALYSISDATA AVAILABILITYDATA SETSDECLINE IN POVERTYDEVELOPING COUNTRIESDEVELOPING WORLDDEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCEDEVELOPMENT ECONOMICSDEVELOPMENT INDICATORSDEVELOPMENT PLANNINGDEVELOPMENT STRATEGIESDISSEMINATIONDUAL ECONOMYEAST EUROPEECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTECONOMIC GROWTHECONOMICS LITERATUREEMPIRICAL LITERATUREEMPIRICAL REGULARITIESERROR TERMESTIMATION RESULTSFARM EMPLOYMENTFARMERSFARMING COMMUNITIESFINANCIAL INSTITUTIONSFIXED EFFECTSFOOD PRICEFOOD PRICESFOOD PRODUCTSGDPGDP DEFLATORGLOBAL DEVELOPMENTGLOBAL DEVELOPMENT FINANCEGREEN REVOLUTIONGROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCTGROWTH EFFECTGROWTH ELASTICITYGROWTH POTENTIALGROWTH PROCESSGROWTH RATEGROWTH RATESHEADCOUNT POVERTYHEADCOUNT RATIOHOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTIONHOUSEHOLD DATAHOUSEHOLD INCOMEHOUSEHOLD SURVEYHOUSEHOLD SURVEYSHOUSEHOLD WELFAREHUMAN CAPITALIMPACT ON POVERTYIMPACT ON POVERTY REDUCTIONINCOMEINCOME DISTRIBUTIONINCOME EFFECTINCOME INEQUALITYINCOME QUINTILEINDUSTRIALIZATIONINSURANCEIRRIGATIONLABOR MARKETLABOR MARKETSLEGAL STATUSLEVEL OF DEVELOPMENTLOW-INCOME COUNTRIESNATIONAL ACCOUNTSNATIONAL POLICY0 HYPOTHESISPOLICY IMPLICATIONSPOLICY MAKERSPOLICY REFORMSPOLITICAL ECONOMYPOOR PEOPLEPOORER GROUPSPOPULATION GROWTHPOPULATION GROWTH RATESPOPULATION SHIFTSPOPULATION STATISTICSPOVERTY ACROSS COUNTRIESPOVERTY CHANGEPOVERTY DATAPOVERTY ESTIMATESPOVERTY GAPPOVERTY GAP INDEXPOVERTY IMPACTPOVERTY LINEPOVERTY MEASUREPOVERTY MEASURESPOVERTY OUTCOMESPOVERTY REDUCTIONPOVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGIESPOVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGYPOVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY PAPERSPURCHASING POWERPURCHASING POWER PARITYRAPID GROWTHRATE OF GROWTHREAL INCOMESREDUCING POVERTYREDUCTION IN POVERTYRELATIVE CONTRIBUTIONRESPECTRURALRURAL AREASRURAL ECONOMYRURAL HEADCOUNTRURAL HINTERLANDRURAL HOUSEHOLDSRURAL INCOMESRURAL INFRASTRUCTURERURAL POORRURAL POPULATIONRURAL ROADRURAL ROAD CONSTRUCTIONSAVINGSSECTORAL COMPOSITIONSMALLHOLDER AGRICULTURESUB-SAHARAN AFRICASUBSISTENCESUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENTTOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITYTOTAL POVERTYTRANSACTION COSTSUNSKILLED LABORURBAN BIASURBAN CENTERSURBAN DWELLERSWAGESWATER MANAGEMENTWorld Bank10.1596/978-0-8213-6854-1