Current and Emerging Issues
for Economic Analysis
and Policy Research
Edited by
Kostas G. Stamoulis
THE PRESENT PUBLICATION contains four in-depth reviews on current and emerging issues in the economic analysis of food, agriculture and rural development, written by well-known scholars in the field. The selection of the issues for in-depth review was the result of a survey conducted among FAO staff involved in policy assistance activities in the main developing regions. Thus, the choice reflects their and, by extension, the policy-makers' perception as to the main research priorities in the economic analysis of agriculture, rural development, poverty and food security. A synthesis of the survey results is included as a chapter. The four in-depth reviews concern: (i) new trends in development thinking and implications for agriculture and rural development (by Simon Maxwell and Robin Heber Percy); (ii) causes, characteristics and alleviation strategies for rural poverty, with particular emphasis on Latin America (by Alberto Valdés and Johan A. Mistiaen); (iii) institutions, reform and agricultural performance (by Pranab Bardhan); and (iv) migration and poverty issues (by J. Edward Taylor).
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PREFACE (
96KB)
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ( 23KB)
SUMMARY OF RESULTS OF THE SURVEY ( 199KB)
by Franco Viciani, Kostas G. Stamoulis and Alberto
Zezza
1. Introduction
2. Poverty, Inequality and Food Insecurity
3. Policy Reforms Affecting Agriculture
and Rural Development, and Changes in the Role of the State
4. Globalization and International
Trade Liberalization
5. Increasing Agricultural Production:
Sustainability and Technology Changes
NEW TRENDS IN DEVELOPMENT THINKING AND IMPLICATIONS
FOR AGRICULTURE ( 327KB)
by Simon Maxwell and Robin Heber Percy
1. Introduction 2.
Deck-clearing: Trends or Discontinuities?
3. Is there a Current Consensus on
FARD?
4. Current Themes in Development Thinking?
5. Summary and Conclusions
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
RURAL POVERTY IN LATIN AMERICA: RECENT TRENDS
AND NEW CHALLENGES ( 330KB)
by Alberto Valdés and Johan A. Mistiaen
1. Introduction: Background, Issues
and Objectives
2. Trends in Poverty Measurement and
Comparisons: What is Poverty and Who is Poor?
3. Rural Poverty Profiling: What Patterns
Characterize the Rural Poor?
4. Determinants of Rural Poverty: What
Causal Forces Underlie Rural Poverty?
5. Some Key Thematic Rural Poverty
Issues
6. Looking Ahead: Emerging Research
and Policy Challenges
Acknowledgements
References
INSTITUTIONS, REFORMS AND AGRICULTURAL PERFORMANCE ( 220KB)
by Pramab Bardhan
1. Introduction: Institutions and
Economic Change
2. Institutional Impediments to Gains
from Trade
3. Institutional Issues in Land Reform
4. Agricultural and Rural Policy Reform:
The Role of Institutions
5. Towards a Research Agenda: Priority
Areas for Future
References
MIGRATION: NEW DIMENSIONS AND CHARACTERISTICS,
CAUSES, CONSEQUENCES AND IMPLICATIONS FOR RURAL POVERTY ( 226KB)
by J. Edward Taylor