The objective of the Nepal Investment Climate Assessment (ICA) is to evaluate the investment climate in Nepal in all its dimensions and promote policies to strengthen the private sector. The investment climate is made up of many dimensions that shape the opportunities for investments, employment creation, and growth of private firms. Such dimensions include factor markets, product markets, infrastructure services, and the macroeconomic, legal, regulatory, and institutional framework.

The purpose of this study is to provide in one place a set of papers that were written at various points in time over the last four years on poverty and the response to the recent economic crisis in Liberia. More precisely, the objective of the study is twofold. First it is to provide a basic diagnostic of both consumption-based poverty and human development (especially education and health) in the country using the 2007 CWIQ (Core Welfare Indicators Questionnaire) survey.

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.

This report is on the findings of a major international research project examining the links between trade, gender, and poverty. Trade liberalization can create economic opportunities, but women and men cannot take advantage of these opportunities on an equal basis. Women and men differ in their endowments, control over resources, access to labor markets, and their roles within the household.

This report brings together lessons from previous studies, supplemented by new analysis. It frames the challenges facing the rural and agri-food sector in the Western Balkans to illustrate the directions for policies, now and in the future. Part one looks at the characteristics of the rural and agri-food sector today, its potential and its obstacles. Part two looks at the future of the agri-food sector and rural space.

The Africa Development Indicators 2007 essay explores the patterns of growth in Sub- Saharan Africa over the past three decades. It finds that the volatility of growth-an outcome of conflict, governance, and world commodity prices-has been greater than in any other region. Volatility has dampened expectations and investments-and has obscured some periods of good performance for some countries. The essay shows that pickups in growth were seldom sustained- indeed, that they were often followed by ferocious declines, and hence, Africa's flat economic performance over 1975-2005.

Exposición de Marcelo Arandia de OXFAM para el seminario "Políticas e inversión pública preparada para el desarrollo agropecuario" realizado el 22 de marzo de 2012 en el salón Illimani del Hotel Radisson de la ciudad de La Paz, Bolivia.

El enfoque SIAL surge a finales de la década de 1990 cuando un grupo de investigadores de instituciones francesas, como el CIRAD (Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement) y el INRA (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique).

Este trabajo, guiado y articulado por interrogantes, encuentra su razón de ser en un ejercicio para posicionar el razonamiento sobre agricultura familiar en una perspectiva comunitaria de la forma más holística que mi entendimiento pueda alcanzar.
 

 
A menudo se habla de la necesidad de mostrar experiencias concretas en el plano de la producción agroecológica, para trascender las palabras de un discurso que la promueve, pero que no necesariamente logra demostrar su viabilidad. Movidos por ese interés, en esta oportunidad difundimos el artículo de tres activistas del área que comparten con las y los lectores de Diálogos las principales características de una experiencia exitosa y de alcance más que mediano.

La importancia de la agricultura campesina familiar en el Perú y su contribución a la economía nacional han sido puestas en evidencia en el último censo agropecuario y a través de diversos estudios y comentarios de especialistas. No es casual que el tema esté presente en la reciente  campaña política. El autor describe los principales planteamientos al respecto de tres de las agrupaciones políticas en carrera.