reductions. The mode for recycling carbon tax revenues strongly influences distributional outcomes, with tradeoffs between growth …

greatly reduce national poverty over the short-term. In this regard, agricultural growth is more effective, albeit with slower … dynamic economy-wide models for Ethiopia and Uganda that capture both traditional aspects of the debate (growth linkages and … agglomeration is an important source of long-term growth and structural transformation, but that investing in cities does not …

While economic growth generally reduces income poverty, there are pronounced differences in the strength of this … relationship across countries. Typical explanations for this variation include measurement errors in growth-poverty accounting and … country's growth-poverty relationship and performance. Using multiplier and structural path analysis, we compare the …

Economic growth in Vietnam has been fairly resilient to the global commodity and financial crises, but it is unclear … why. In addition, the impact of the crises on employment and poverty is in dispute. We develop a dynamic computable … commodity crisis increased employment and reduced poverty by favouring labour-intensive exports, especially in agriculture. The …

scenarios, biofuels accelerate GDP growth and reduce poverty. However, a stronger tradeoff between biofuels and food …-shortage amongst female workers also limits poverty reduction. Policy simulations indicate that only modest improvements in women …

. Sequentially-linked models capture natural resource constraints; emissions from land use change; economywide growth linkages; and … household poverty. Results indicate that there are economic incentives to convert unused lands to sugarcane-ethanol production … involve smallholders in feedstock production in order to reduce rural poverty, especially since our results indicate that …

of the population below the poverty line. Socio-economic impacts are much larger during major drought years, thus …

point decline in average annual real GDP growth rate. The net present value of the potential impact on GDP out to 2050 is …