Down to Earth: Agriculture and Poverty Reduction in Africa

Luc Christiaensen and Lionel Demery

No 6624 in World Bank Publications - Books from The World Bank Group

Abstract: This 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?

Keywords: Poverty Reduction-Achieving Shared Growth Economic Theory and Research Poverty Reduction-Rural Poverty Reduction Health; Nutrition and Population-Population Policies Macroeconomics and Economic Growth Health; Nutrition and Population (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8213-6854-1
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