individuals still live after decades of mixed progress. Evidence shows that poverty reduction on its own will not do the job of … eradicating hunger, nor will only increased food production. The region's contribution to high and volatile international food … changing composition of future food demand in the region will depend on the extent to which poverty reduction effectively leads …

undernourishment (hunger), largely through gaining farmers and others access to productivity-enhancing equipment, translating into …

the shocks. Finally, it estimates vulnerability to poverty by modeling both households' expected consumption and their …This paper provides new insight into the poverty, malnutrition and vulnerability issues in Mali, using existing … conventional knowledge about poverty, food poverty, and malnutrition. The prevalence of chronic malnutrition is high in Mali, with …

between economic growth and income inequity. We develop a simple model to establish that economic growth and inequality can …) economies are two-fold: first, we observed that for low values of economic growth, inequality and growth bear an inverted U … relationship between growth and inequality can take the form of a wave. Secondly, we examine the issue of the existence of …

convinced that higher growth would reduce income poverty to an acceptable margin, there appears to be little concrete policy … possibly rising inequality would ensure that a great many would fall through the cracks, and not benefit from high growth, even …This paper focuses on the role of institutions in poverty alleviation, where both poverty and institutions are …

Brazil's slow pace of poverty reduction over the last two decades reflects both low growth and a low growth elasticity … considerable variation in the poverty-reducing effectiveness of growth-across sectors, across space, and over time. Growth in the … services sector was substantially more poverty-reducing than was growth in either agriculture or industry. Growth in industry …

This paper contributes to explain the cross-country heterogeneity of the poverty response to changes in economic growth … differential poverty-reducing impact of sectoral growth at various levels of disaggregation, and the role of unskilled labor …. It does so by focusing on the structure of output growth. The paper presents a two-sector theoretical model that …

The authors develop a macroeconomic framework that captures links between aid, public investment, growth, and poverty … impact of policy shocks on poverty by linking the model to a household survey. They calibrate the model for Ethiopia and … should increase to reach the poverty targets of the Millennium Development Goals. …

authors assess the impact of policy shocks on poverty by using partial growth elasticities. They perform various policy … growth and poverty reduction in Niger. …, and health), and growth are explicitly captured. Although the nominal exchange rate is fixed, the relative price of …

for half of economic growth. Finally, institutions can affect poverty and equity, although the effects seem generally … with formal institutions. Second, the impact of labor market institutions on productivity growth has probably been …