Report

Following the successful implementation of the Doi Moi reform programme, Viet Nam has experienced outstanding economic progress, for example in aggregate output and poverty reduction. For many years, Viet Nam developed much faster than the typical...

• Agriculture
• Household survey
• Rural development

Report

Tiếp nối sự thành công của chương trình cải cách Đổi mới, Việt Nam đã gặt hái được rất nhiều thành tựu kinh tế về tăng trưởng và giảm nghèo, Việt nam đã phát triển nhanh hơn các nước đang phát triển khác; và từ năm 2014, sự khác biệt về tăng trưởng...

• Agriculture
• Household survey
• Rural development

Journal Special Issue

Many developing and transition countries have considerable regional variation in average household income, poverty, and in health and educational status. National human development indicators can therefore mislead policy-makers when large regional...

• Equality and inequality
• Poverty measurement
• Poverty

Journal Special Issue

Many developing and transition countries have considerable regional variation in average household income, poverty, and in health and educational status. National human development indicators can therefore mislead policy-makers when large regional...

• Equality and inequality
• Human capital
• Poverty

Journal Special Issue

Getting an accurate picture of poverty and inequality trends and patterns in the world's most populous country is central to understanding changes in global inequality and poverty – these alter significantly when China is included or excluded...

• Equality and inequality
• Income distribution
• Rural development

Journal Special Issue

This issue analyses the impact of globalization on Africa and present an overview of the six Africa case studies.

• Globalization
• Poverty
• Poverty measurement

Blog

by Lorraine Telfer-Taivainen October 2011

Lorraine Telfer-Taivainen In October the London School of Economics and Political Science hosted the launch of Urbanization and Development...

• Economic development
• Poverty
• Rural development

Working Paper

Many developing nations, especially the least developed countries, are subjected to recurrent spells of food insecurity. In order to understand food insecurity in these countries it is necessary to consider not only immediate or trigger-causes of...

• Agriculture and state
• Food security
• International economic relations

Working Paper

HIV/AIDS has a severe impact on food security, affecting all of its dimensions: availability, stability, access, utilization. FAO recognizes that HIV/AIDS is a determining factor for, as well as a consequence of, food insecurity. Although the...

• Food security
• Health
• Households

Working Paper

Using a rice village in the Philippines as a social observatory, the impacts of modernization forces under globalization on rural poverty are assessed based on data collected from recurrent household surveys over the past three decades. After...

• Agricultural innovations
• Agriculture
• Globalization

Working Paper

This article aims to contribute to the discussion about how to make development interventions more effective by analyzing the factors contributing to the success or failure of rural development projects. We made an aggregate level analysis of 46...

• Economic development projects
• Evaluation
• International agencies

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Entrepreneurship and Conflict

• Agriculture
• Conflict management
• Investments

Journal Article

Rapid urbanization is an important characteristic of African development and yet the structural transformation debate focuses on agriculture’s relative merits without also considering the benefits from urban agglomeration. As a result, African...

• Economic development
• Gross national product
• Poverty

Working Paper

• Public finance
• Food security
• Natural disasters

Working Paper

• Economic development
• Post-communism
• Rural development

Working Paper

This paper investigates the relationship between criminal activity and geographical isolation. Using data from Madagascar, we show that, after we control for population composition and risk factors, crime increases with distance from urban centers...

• Conflict management
• Justice, Administration of
• Regional economics