This paper studies the growth effects of externalities associated with intergenerational health transmission, health …

The authors develop a macroeconomic framework that captures links between aid, public investment, growth, and poverty …. Public investment is disaggregated into education, infrastructure, and health, and affects both aggregate supply and demand … impact of policy shocks on poverty by linking the model to a household survey. They calibrate the model for Ethiopia and …

illiteracy, income inequality, and macroeconomic volatility tend to increase poverty. In addition, the impact of growth on …The author studies the links between macroeconomic adjustment and poverty. First, he summarizes some of the recent … evidence on poverty in the developing world. Second, he reviews the various channels through which macroeconomic policies …

The authors compare three approaches to linking representative-household macro models with micro household income data … in terms of their implications for measuring the poverty and distributional effects of policy shocks. These approaches … different results in absolute terms, they show that potential differences in the measurement of distributional and poverty …