-protected importables. Moreover, major external shocks to the economy (including increases in world prices of fuel in 2007 and early 2008 … the effects of changes in world prices and to assess dynamic effects of shocks and policies on growth and income …

"The world made significant progress on reducing poverty between 1981 and 2001 — the number of people in developing … countries living on less than US$1 a day fell from 1.5 billion to 1.1 billion, or from 40 to 21 percent of the world … world's fastest-growing economies. The rapid economic growth and enormous poverty reduction achieved by China, and to a …

"The world made significant progress on reducing poverty between 1981 and 2001 — the number of people in developing … countries living on less than US$1 a day fell from 1.5 billion to 1.1 billion, or from 40 to 21 percent of the world … world's fastest-growing economies. The rapid economic growth and enormous poverty reduction achieved by China, and to a …

€“2010) has raised questions about the drivers behind the growth. Skeptics argue that rising commodity prices, as world … environment and increased investments in agriculture at a time when African governments and donors have been rallying to increase … their support to agriculture. Is African agriculture undergoing a new and sustained recovery after many decades of stagnant …

literature disaggregating the growth–poverty relationship in agriculture. Although our estimated elasticities are higher for … agriculture given the importance of farm incomes for the poor, the extent to which this is true varies by country. In fact …, elasticities for certain nonagricultural sectors are much closer to those in agriculture. Overall, elasticities are typically …

and services. Since agriculture currently dominates Ethiopia's economy and employment, however, there is an issue as to … grow more rapidly than the agricultural sector. The slower growth of agriculture, its relative decline, concern about the … difficulty of modernizing agriculture and pessimism about the potentials for technological change in agriculture suggest to some …