Faster More Equitable Growth: The Relation Between Growth in Agriculture and Poverty Reduction

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Agricultural Productivity and Economic Growth (2010, background): “(2008), and the GTAP model, described in part in Powell (2007). A number of analyses of agricultural research impacts, including Evenson et al.”
Agricultural Input Subsidies: The Recent Malawi Experience (2013, background): “With time, however, the pendulum began to swing back as a result of further empirical work showing the importance of the agricultural sector to poor rural economies and to the livelihoods of poor people within those economies (see, for example, Datt and Ravallion, 1996; Mellor, 2000; Thirtle et al.,”
A Policy Agenda for Pro-Poor Agricultural Growth (2004, background): “In a recent article, Mellor, 2000 (p3) argues that “there has been a tendency to generalise that economic growth reduces poverty, when in fact it is the direct and indirect effects of the agricultural growth that account for virtually all the poverty decline”.”
Rural Poverty (2009, background): “Mellor and associates have long emphasised this process as well (Mellor, 1999).”
Agricultural Productivity and Poverty Reduction: Linkages and Pathways (2011, unknown): “However, since rising real wages create an automatic incentive to increase labor productivity, much of the employment effect is likely to come from the non-farm sector (Mellor 1999).”