Measuring the impacts of agricultural research on poverty reduction

Agricultural Economics

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-14

  Alwang, Jeffrey ^a   Siegel, Paul B ^b  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

Agricultural research; Malawi; Poverty measures

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PLANNING METHOD; POVERTY ALLEVIATION; RURAL ECONOMY;

MALAWI;

EID: 0041767452     PISSN: 01695150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5150(03)00043-4     Document Type: Article

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