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 … public investment on urban and rural poverty through case studies of India, China, Thailand, and Uganda. And it highlights … safety net programs and a chapter devoted solely to the vexing poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, Public Expenditures, Growth …

as a continent-wide framework to facilitate faster agricultural growth and progress toward poverty reduction and food and … and investment planning and the review, dialogue, and partnership modalities and evaluates their likely impact on future … 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 …

investment-to-productivity-growth efficiency, public investments take longer to overcome the negative growth effects the higher … 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 …

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 …This paper estimates required investment and its allocation among different regions to maximize agricultural output … different values of R&D and poverty elasticities on the optimal allocation of R&D investment across regions. Our simulation …

internal conflicts, decreasing oil revenues, and governance failure. The latest official growth numbers date back to precrisis … consistent economic framework is presented to help close this information gap and to better understand growth and poverty … dynamics during crises. Results show that economic growth in Yemen accelerated during the food and fuel crises in 2008 because …

among firms in the cluster. Although the investment amount needed to start a business has more than tripled, this amount …