agricultural growth? In attempting to answer this question, we survey the empirical literature at micro and macro levels concerning …

Public Expenditures, Growth, and Poverty assesses the efficacy of poverty reduction programs in Latin America, Africa …, and Asia by synthesizing studies conducted by the International Food Policy Research Institute over the past ten years … public investment on urban and rural poverty through case studies of India, China, Thailand, and Uganda. And it highlights …

policy and strategic options for future growth and poverty reduction. These include setting the right priorities for public … to China and India’s economic development, such as the need to ensure growth that is sustainable, equitable, and …

This paper examines the impacts of prenatal conditions on child growth using recent data from Indonesia. There is … empirical results show that an increase in birth weight improves child growth outcomes as measured by the height and weight Z …-scores, as well as schooling performance as measured by age at start of schooling and number of grades repeated. The interactions …

, good long-term nutritional status) helps insure resilience to disasters by protecting schooling investments and outcomes …, children with more biological human capital are less adversely affected by flood, and the rate of investment increases with the … frequent, repeated drought exposure reduces schooling investments in some cases, with larger negative impacts seen among …

This paper identifies the cumulative impact of early schooling investments on later schooling outcomes in the context … schooling. Using a child-level longitudinal dataset from rural Ethiopia, we estimate a dynamic conditional schooling demand … function where the coefficient estimate on the lagged dependent variable captures the impact of all previous periods’ schooling …

"While nutritional intake in early childhood provides the basis for a child's health capital, investments in schooling …

augments the efficiency of investment in schooling at the early stage, it may increase opportunity costs at the later stage …, which may deter investment in schooling." Authors' Abstract …"This paper examines the effects of early childhood nutrition on schooling inputs and outcomes to assess the dynamic …