Agricultural Growth and Poverty Reduction

de Janvry, Alain; Sadoulet, Elisabeth

dc.creator	de Janvry, Alain
dc.creator	Sadoulet, Elisabeth
dc.date	2012-03-30T07:12:34Z
dc.date	2012-03-30T07:12:34Z
dc.date	2009-11-30
dc.date.accessioned	2023-02-18T19:40:26Z
dc.date.available	2023-02-18T19:40:26Z
dc.identifier	World Bank Research Observer
dc.identifier	1564-6971
dc.identifier	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4432
dc.identifier.uri	http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/249917
dc.description	Agricultural growth has long been recognized as an important instrument for poverty reduction. Yet, measurements of this relationship are still scarce and not always reliable. The authors present additional evidence at both the sectoral and household levels based on recent data. Results show that rural poverty reduction has been associated with growth in yields and in agricultural labor productivity, but that this relation varies sharply across regional contexts. GDP growth originating in agriculture induces income growth among the 40 percent poorest, which is on the order of three times larger than growth originating in the rest of the economy. The power of agriculture comes not only from its direct poverty reduction effect but also from its potentially strong growth linkage effects on the rest of the economy. Decomposing the aggregate decline in poverty into a rural contribution, an urban contribution, and a population shift component shows that rural areas contributed more than half the observed aggregate decline in poverty. Finally, using the example of Vietnam, the authors show that rapid growth in agriculture has opened pathways out of poverty for farming households. While the effectiveness of agricultural growth in reducing poverty is well established, the effectiveness of public investment in inducing agricultural growth is still incomplete and conditional on context.
dc.publisher	World Bank
dc.rights	CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO
dc.rights	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo/
dc.rights	World Bank
dc.subject	agricultural frontier
dc.subject	agricultural growth
dc.subject	employment opportunities
dc.subject	food prices
dc.subject	food production
dc.subject	income
dc.subject	income growth
dc.subject	land productivity
dc.subject	poor
dc.subject	poverty data
dc.subject	poverty reduction
dc.subject	poverty reduction strategy
dc.subject	rural
dc.subject	rural areas
dc.subject	rural contribution
dc.subject	rural poverty
dc.subject	rural poverty reduction
dc.subject	rural workers
dc.subject	smallholder farming
dc.subject	social programs
dc.title	Agricultural Growth and Poverty Reduction
dc.type	Journal Article
dc.type	Journal Article
dc.coverage	East Asia and Pacific
dc.coverage	Latin America & Caribbean
dc.coverage	Africa
dc.coverage	Brazil