abstract iran is among the country that despite the possession of valuable natural resources does not placed in developed countries. expansion of agricultural exports through the development of rural areas, reducing poverty and exclusion zones, in the process of economic development plays a key role. the export of horticultural products can have a positive impact on agricultural development. in...

Poverty is the most serious threat to natural resources and the environment and most of the poor are rural-based who engage in various agricultural activities. Land is a critical asset for the rural poor and lacking means to appropriately intensify agriculture which compels the poor to either overuse or misuse this natural resource base to meet basic needs. This study presents empirical relatio...

This paper analyzes the poverty in urban China in 1995 using 1995 Chinese Household Income Projects (CHIP) data. It applies the intersection method to estimate the minimum poverty thresholds and the implicit equivalence scales that differentiate according to family sizes and regional characteristics. The Sen Index of Poverty and Headcount Index are estimated at four distinct poverty thresholds ...

Implementing the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) as the centerpiece of a poverty-reduction strategy implies that agriculture and its individual subsectors must play a primary role as leading sources of pro-poor growth at national level. Uganda and other African countries pursuing the CAADP agenda are not just seeking to accelerate growth but also to maximize and b...

The goal of the World Bank is ‘a world free of poverty’ but the most widely used poverty measures do not show when poverty might be eliminated. The ‘head-count index’ simply counts the poor, while the ‘poverty gap index’ shows their average shortfall from the poverty line. Neither measure reflects changes in the distribution of incomes amongst the poor, but squaring the poverty gap brings sensi...

Using 2000-04 panel data this study analyses the pathways rural households followed out of poverty in two lagging provinces of China, Inner Mongolia and Gansu. Rising labour productivity in agriculture has been key, and still holds much promise. Labour mobility has also been important in Gansu. So far, rural diversification has not proven to contribute much to poverty reduction. Income transfer...

climate change phenomenon is an important environmental challenge of the world. increasing extension of greenhouse gases and remote relationship phenomena accelerate the speed f climate change. changes in precipitation level, drought occurrence and changes in the level of surface and groundwater resources are the recognized consequences of climate change. in order to study consequences of clima...