Over 1 billion people currently live in slums, with the number of slum dwellers only expected
to grow in the coming decades. The vast majority of slums are located in and around urban …

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Abstract Land-Use and Land-Cover Change is significant to a range of themes and issues
central to the study of global change. The alterations it effects in the surface of the earth hold …

This paper examines the extent to which various regions, and the world as a whole, could
gain from multilateral trade reform over the next decade. The World Bank's Linkage model of …

Sponsored by the UK Department for International Development, this book deals directly
with concerns that reform may have adverse effects on poverty in developing countries. The …

We are grateful to Xinshen Diao for imnportant background work on general equilibrium
mnodeling and critical input on early ideas, and to Wendy Ayres for her role as a challenging …

Rural financial markets, in particular those involving state-owned agricultural credit
institutions, have been at the center of government interventions in most developing …

" Globalization and its relation to poverty reduction and development is not well understood.
The book identifies the ways in which globalization can overcome poverty or make it worse …

Primary commodities still account for the bulk of exports in many developing countries.
However, real commodity prices have been declining almost continuously since the early …

The continuing process of global integration bears implications for farmers and related
supplying and processing industries in all parts of the world, but also for the rest of the world …