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Sri Lanka’s agriculture remains beholden to a law from 1958 that compels nearly half of the country’s poorest farmers to ...
How did Taiwan go from being a poor region of China to one of the richest countries in the world? This video explores ...
The world has seen dramatic decreases in global poverty over the past three decades, and improvements in agriculture in poor and middle-income countries have been “at the core of this ...
Something's shifting in the Philippine countryside. A new generation of agricultural innovators refuses to accept the status quo, and two young Filipinos are leading the charge.
Here's some of why we have an image problem in the world's poor nations. Some 2.8 billion people subsist on less than $2 a day. We in the rich world preach that if they work hard they will climb ...
Agriculture is the backbone of Kenya’s economy and remains a key policy issue for Government’s development agenda. According to a World Bank report, as at 2014, 47 per cent of the world's ...
Muhammadu Sanusi, the emir of Kano, says poor infrastructure, widespread smuggling, and ineffective copyright enforcement are ...
This report focuses on how the copra subsidy reduces poverty. Using data from the 2019 Household Income and Expenditure Survey it finds that the subsidy reduces poverty, but becomes less effective the ...