Role of agriculture in achieving MDG 1 in Asia and the Pacific region
This paper examines whether agriculture growth through public expenditure, ODA or investment will improve significantly the prospects of achieving MDG 1 of halving poverty in Asia and the Pacific Region. Aggregation of the simulation results for various groups reveals that countries in low income group, with a low level of macro governance ir institutional quality, or with low ease of doing business would need larger increase in agricultural ODA, expenditure or investment to halve poverty.
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