ABSTRACT
The evaluation mentioned the lesson about the need for a closer relationship between social and productive projects. Most international donors decreased their support to programs that targeted rural poverty, partly because the integrated rural development projects popular during the 1970s and 1980s had performed somewhat poorly. The problem of rural poverty became more closely associated with the social sectors, so projects began to support services and social funds. Since rural poverty remains important after a decade of these efforts, donors concluded that rural poverty should be targeted specifically. The literature analyzing the growth of nontraditional export crops in developing countries often stresses its negative effects on wage workers, because such crops are often mechanized and may demand substantial amounts of labor only during certain times of the year. In the case of wage workers, some nontraditional export crops have led to increased employment and wages and better working conditions.
