Agriculture, structural transformation and poverty reduction: Eight new insights

cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centreen
cg.creator.identifierWilliam Martin: 0000-0002-2824-1303
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.05.027en
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Markets, Trade, and Institutions Division
cg.identifier.publicationRankA
cg.isijournalISI Journalen
cg.issn0305-750Xen
cg.issueSeptember 2018en
cg.journalWorld Developmenten
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
cg.volume109en
dc.contributor.authorChristiaensen, Lucen
dc.contributor.authorMartin, Willen
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-21T09:04:46Zen
dc.date.available2024-06-21T09:04:46Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/145633
dc.titleAgriculture, structural transformation and poverty reduction: Eight new insightsen
dcterms.abstractWhether 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. Drawing on the more recent history and applying a range of methods, the papers in this special issue confirm the view that growth in agriculture is on average more poverty reducing than an equivalent amount of growth outside agriculture. They also add important nuances to this broad empirical regularity, uncover a series of structural conditions that affect this relation, and show that different mechanisms to finance public investment to boost sectoral growth (deficit financing, taxation or aid) can have widely different impacts on poverty, a widely-ignored issue so far. They do so by going beyond the traditional agriculture-nonagriculture dichotomy, also looking at the subsectors and the differential effects of prices versus productivity. They further distinguish between production for home and market consumption, between modern, outward oriented and informal domestically - focused firms, as well as between secondary towns and cities. Eight key insights emerge.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.bibliographicCitationChristiaensen, Luc; and Martin, Will. 2018. Agriculture, structural transformation and poverty reduction: Eight new insights. World Development 109 (September 2018): 413-416. Special Section: Agricultural Growth and Poverty Reduction. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.05.027en
dcterms.extent4 pagesen
dcterms.issued2018-06-14
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0
dcterms.publisherElsevieren
dcterms.relationhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2016.12.008en
dcterms.relationhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2016.08.014en
dcterms.relationhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.07.004en
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll5/id/6260en
dcterms.subjectstructural adjustmenten
dcterms.subjectagricultureen
dcterms.subjectproductivityen
dcterms.subjectagricultural developmenten
dcterms.subjectpovertyen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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