## Rural Poverty in Developing Countries: Implications for Public Policy

_Economic Issues, March 14, 2001_

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## Bibliographic details
- Authors: Mahmood Hasan Khan
- Published: March 14, 2001
- Series: Economic Issues
- Volume: 2001
- Issue: 003
- Pages: 18
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781589060067.051
- Stock No: EIIEA026
- ISBN: 9781589060067
- ISSN: 1020-5098

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### Overview
- Author: Mahmood Hasan Khan
- Publication date: March 14, 2001
- Format: Economic Issues No. 2001/003
- Summary: Reviews causes of poverty in rural areas and presents a policy framework for reducing rural poverty, including through land reform, public works programs, access to credit, physical and social infrastructure, subsidies, and transfer of technology. Identifies key elements for drafting a policy to reduce rural poverty.

### Policy framework and recommended interventions
- Land reform
- Public works programs
- Access to credit
- Physical and social infrastructure
- Subsidies
- Transfer of technology

### Key elements for drafting a policy to reduce rural poverty
- Identification of causes of poverty in rural areas
- Design of poverty-mitigating strategies and poverty-creating process countermeasures
- Integration of infrastructure, education, labor, and national accounts considerations into policy design
- Consideration of policy bias and differential impacts across groups

### Subjects and keywords
- Subject: Education, Infrastructure, Labor, National accounts, Poverty, Poverty reduction
- Keywords: EI, Infrastructure, policy, Policy bias, poverty difference, Poverty reduction, poverty-creating process, poverty-mitigating strategy, rural poverty, Sub-Saharan Africa

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