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The Status of rural poverty in the Near East and North Africa Enabling

Year of publication 2007

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 91 p.

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Document

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) This report is based on a desk review of recent literature on rural poverty reduction in the Near East and North Africa (NENA) region, and on a synthesis and analysis of existing secondary data sources (see List of References for details). The study builds on the IFAD NENA Rural Poverty Assessment Report prepared in 2001–2002 (and published in 2003). It provides a full update of poverty data to the latest year available, analyses emerging trends, and highlights variations in the rural poverty pr ofile resulting from rapid changes in socio-economic and rural development conditions in the region. In its capacity as a regional assessment (based on a desk review), this report by definition focuses on key rural poverty issues in the 13 highly diverse countries without attempting to propose policy and programme actions at the national or local levels. Explicit country situations are quoted throughout the report in order to illustrate examples of poverty dimensions or specific constraints prev alent in some areas, or in order to underline differences in rural poverty among countries. The specificity of each country and local area, in terms of tailoring actions to meet the needs of different rural target groups, is better analysed at the COSOP or individual IFAD project level.

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