Synopsis
Poverty is spreading. There are now as many people living in absolute poverty - almost a billion in the rural Third World alone - as there were living on the entire planet only a century ago. Yet poverty continues to be shrouded in mystery. Four-fifths of the world's poor live in rural areas; about 340 million people worldwide are currently chronically ill from malnutrition; at a time when enough grain is being produced to provide everyone in the world with twice the daily calorie requirements, global hunger is at an all-time high. Despite almost four decades and billions of dollars in development activities, we are barely in a position to track the changing dynamics of poverty or to define with conviction the processes that entrap the poor in their misery. "The State of World Rural Poverty" offers the first comprehensive look at the economic conditions and prospects of the world's rural poor.
Certain to become a definitive source of data and analysis, especially for the unique rural poverty indexes of 114 developing countries, as well as an invaluable policy guide to issues involving development and poverty in under-developed nations, this volume incorporates research from all over the world. The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is a United Nations Agency that has approved more than 300 development programmes in almost 100 countries and is considered the world's foremost authority on issues of world poverty."synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
About the Authors
Idriss Jazairy is President of IFAD and author or co-author of numerous publications on international economic and development affairs
Theresa Panuccio is Acting Senior Economist at IFAD and has written on women in Ethiopia and Ghana.
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