Despite progress in recent years, the incidence of poverty in the Philippines remains very high: the national poverty rate was more than 30 percent in 2003, with even higher levels in rural areas.

"Overall, the study concludes that in many cases smallholders other than the smallest backyard producers will be able to stay in the livestock business for a long time.

"A dramatic increase over the past fifteen years in domestic pork demand and production in the Philippines has created a potentially profitable opportunity for poor rural and agricultural households.

"This study uses a relatively new method called “small area estimation” to estimate various measures of poverty and inequality for provinces, districts, and communes of Vietnam.

Since the mid-1990s, Vietnam has sustained high rates of economic growth, reducing poverty from 58 percent in 1993 to 37 percent in 1998. Despite these gains, Vietnam is among the 30 poorest countries in the world.

This report identifies the links among economic growth, poverty alleviation, and natural resource degradation in Brazil.

Following Mozambique’s economic collapse in 1986, the country began a wide-ranging process of reform, with the support of the international community.

This report identifies the links among economic growth, poverty alleviation, and natural resource degradation in Brazil.

This report investigates the income and equity effects of macroeconomic policy reforms in Zimbabwe, emphasizing linkages between macroeconomic policies and agricultural performance and agriculture's influence on aggregate income and its distr

Since 1986, Tanzania, like many other countries, has experienced a remarkable political and economic transition.

Many developing countries are in transition from a state-dominated to a more market-oriented economy.

On assiste ces dernières années à une résurgence de l’intérêt pour les accords commerciaux régionaux et pour d’autres formes de coopération économique régionale.