Developing countries face a host of macroeconomic challenges in the design and implementation of development strategies … and policies. The importance of the underlying poverty and distributional issues creates a need for relevant and reliable … framework for simulating the poverty implications of the Dutch disease, a change in the terms of trade and budgetary policy. The …

poor on marginal lands is essentially a barometer of economy-wide development. As long as there are abundant marginal lands …

We are not seeing faster progress against poverty amongst the poorest developing countries. Yet this is implied by … widely accepted "stylized facts" about the development process. The paper tries to explain what is missing from those … for 100 developing countries reveals an adverse effect on consumption growth of high initial poverty incidence at a given …

This paper reviews the evidence on the importance of human capital for macro-economic development. Through the lens of … importance of these channels: cross-country regressions, development accounting and quantitative models. The key findings in the …

consumption and around 0.4 fewer meals per day per person. Poverty increased by 12 and 17.5 percentage points in two of the three … protection in the aftermath of the shock at the cost of lower income growth in the future. In disentangling the channels, the …

.3 million people (nearly 1 percent of the world's poor) into poverty …

Weather risk and incomplete insurance markets are significant contributors to poverty for rural households in … payments from weather index insurance allow farmers to cultivate a larger land area in the season following a weather shock …

coping mechanisms that were adopted. The analysis finds that more than half the sample claimed to have faced a shock …

Although the measurement and determinants of poverty have been widely studied, vulnerability, or the threat of future … poverty, has been more difficult to investigate due to data paucity. This paper combines nationally representative household … data with objective drought and price information to quantify the causes of vulnerability to poverty in Ethiopia. Previous …