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In its latest World Development Report (WDR), the World Bank has made out a strong case for making agriculture the centerpiece of development strategies being pursued by developing countries. This would be critical for achieving the millennium development goal of reducing extreme poverty and hunger by half by 2015. Although the WDR, titled “Agriculture and Development,” does not break substantially new ground, its focus on the rural sector as a means of achieving basic social and economic goals is commendable.