This paper examines the continuing effects of COVID-19 and exposure to weather extremes on income, dietary, and migration outcomes in the rural area of Guatemala.

Agricultural commercialization, or the transition from growing crops for home consumption to growing some or all crops for sale, enables farmers to earn cash income that they can use to buy food in markets.

In household surveys, husbands and wives who are asked the same set of survey questions often provide different responses.

Oshida and Haryana States experienced different challenges during India's lockdown due to existing structural differences and state-specific COVID-related policies.

Consumption-based household surveys are used to look at the impact of weather variabilities on welfare, food consumption, and poverty, finding disproportionate welfare impacts from floods.

New findings on how proximity to urban areas affects patterns of rural employment, income levels, and agricultural intensification among households in rural Ghana.

Deteriorating physical health coupled with feelings of stress underlie the tradeoffs migration can bring in incomes and well-being.

Whether the sector of growth matters for the speed of poverty reduction, why, and how best to invest to maximize the poverty reducing effects of sectoral growth remain topics of intense debate.

Assessesing the economy-wide effects of Malawi’s export restrictions on maize and oilseeds, finding that short run benefits may be redered ineffective by production responses in the medium to long run.

The implications of productivity improvements in agriculture, industry, and services for global poverty. In poor countries, increases in agricultural productivity generally have a larger poverty-reduction effect than increases in industry or services.