growth and a third of the poverty caused by the pandemic, the fiscal burden of treatment will constrain diversification, thus …"Despite its strong growth record, Botswana faces two prominent development challenges: the onslaught of HIV/AIDS and … the slowdown in diamond mining. This study estimates the growth and distributional impact of the HIV/AIDS pandemic and …

this paper support a comprehensive petroleum subsidy reform in Yemen. Economic growth is projected to accelerate between 0 …, especially for the poor. Outcomes of alternative reform scenarios range from an increase in poverty of 2 to 6 percentage points …, industrial, and service value chains, which should encourage private sector led and job creating growth in the medium term. …

as a continent-wide framework to facilitate faster agricultural growth and progress toward poverty reduction and food and … growth and poverty-reduction outcomes. …

and farmers and also reduce economy-wide growth and incomes of urban households in the long term. The overall effects of …

consistent economic framework is presented to help close this information gap and to better understand growth and poverty … growth. This growth decline hits households hard and compounds the poverty effects of the food crisis. Model results indicate …Yemen is an oil-exporting and food-importing country on the Arabian Peninsula with persistently high levels of poverty …

growth and poverty. Our results indicate that maximizing the poverty-reducing effects of a biofuels industry in Tanzania …-poor growth than do sugarcane-based systems. However, if smallholder yields can be improved rather than expanding cultivated land …

development (R&D) investment across developing regions (1) to maximize agricultural growth or (2) to maximize poverty reduction at … gains and poverty reduction. The analysis uses a social welfare function to simulate the optimal allocation of research and … different values of R&D and poverty elasticities on the optimal allocation of R&D investment across regions. Our simulation …

, employment and poverty. Tariff reduction under CAFTA adds about .2% to the growth rate of output up to 2020. Liberalizing the … rules of origin for maquila has a bigger positive effect on growth and poverty mainly because it raises the demand for … capital formation. This raises the growth rate of output by over 1% per year and lowers poverty incidence in 2020 by over 25 …

technical change. However, the impacts on income poverty are small, and inequality is reduced by HIV/AIDS. This is because high …-microeconomic assessment. The results indicate that HIV/AIDS greatly reduces annual economic growth, mainly by lowering the long-term rate of … unemployment among low-income households minimizes the economic costs of increased mortality. In contrast, slower economic growth …