Using the most recent data from Tanzania, we investigate the impacts of district-level health and education … health and education indicators and their effects on agricultural productivity. Indeed, the marginal productivities of inputs … (labor in particular) respond significantly and positively to health and education outcomes, especially considered jointly …

associated with major health risks, including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, stroke, and some forms of cancer; large health … establishes the econometric underpinning of an aggregate household health production function and an aggregate household health … supply function using data for 15 high income countries, 1971-2001. Our health production function estimates show that …

that biofuels investment enhances growth and poverty reduction despite some displacement of food crops by biofuels. Overall … reduces the incidence of poverty by about six percentage points over a 12-year phase-in period. Benefits depend on production …

farmers, highlighting that Bt cotton contributes to poverty reduction and rural development. …

poverty. In short run, the oil-biofuels nexus was clearly the driving force behind the surge in food prices, but export … sharply in many countries, and that global poverty levels have increased markedly. The good news is that the supply response … clear that additional people will fall into poverty and become food insecure. Lastly, the global food system is …

Shaheen Akter and John Farrington..."What makes exit from poverty .... …

-being and investigates its implication for poverty reduction. Data were collected randomly from 245 smallholders in the province …

producing jatropha feedstock for biodiesel. Under all scenarios, biofuels investments accelerate GDP growth and reduce poverty … are drawn away from food production. A skills-shortage amongst female workers also limits poverty reduction. Policy …