Rural Development from a Territorial Perspective Case Studies in Asia and Latin America.
This paper reviews the contribution of agriculture and rural development to poverty reduction by examining the transformation of five territories in four countries of Asia (Malaysia and People's Republic of China) and Latin America (Brazil and Peru) that have experienced substantial reductions in poverty. While the four countries fall into three distinct groupings based on national statistics on the importance of agriculture and the growth of Gross Domestic Product, the five territories included in the study were among the poorest in their respective countries. At the same time, all five have experienced great reductions in poverty during the last two decades--a transformation that they achieved by taking substantially different paths that implied different roles of agriculture. The objectives of the study were the following: (i) to analyze the transformation of the five territories, focusing mainly on identifying the dominant strategies that rural households implemented to exit out of poverty; (ii) to understand the relative importance of different 'assets' (human, physical, financial, natural, and social capital) in the successful adoption of 'exit roads' from poverty; (iii) to analyze the role of agriculture and other economic activities in rural poor households to exit from poverty; and (iv) to analyze the role of government, identifying the connections between the 'exit roads' of poor people and policies, projects, and other government interventions and evaluating their contributions to different 'assets'.
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| Format: | Texto biblioteca |
| Language: | ng |
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Washington, District of Columbia : IDB,
2005
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| Subjects: | Desarrollo rural., Desarrollo sostenible., Economía., |
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