(road) development on household income growth and nonagricultural labor supply. The empirical results show that the impacts … of improvements in local road quality (which positively correlate with transportation speed) on income growth and the … transition to nonagricultural labor markets depend on the distance to economic centers and the household education level. In …

) point to limitations in using adult schooling to represent human capital in the cross-country growth literature; (3) support …

investigates the causes of South Africa's persistent schooling imbalances, examining education laws and policies, as well as other … influences on human capital investment. The study finds that inaccessibility of quality education, resulting from a lack of … illness resulting from the HIV/AIDS epidemic can disrupt the education of adolescents, who might need to leave school to care …

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

-change-induced higher global prices for food will lower Yemen's overall GDP growth, raise agricultural GDP, decrease real household incomes …

support the development of manufacturing or export-oriented service sectors. Yet the recent growth experience of many African … economic growth and structural change by developing a multisector intertemporal general equilibrium model. We find that the … substantial short-run growth shock consistent with the Dutch disease theory. Opposed short-run effects on the growth of the …

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 …