that biofuels investment enhances growth and poverty reduction despite some displacement of food crops by biofuels. Overall … reduces the incidence of poverty by about six percentage points over a 12-year phase-in period. Benefits depend on production …

producing jatropha feedstock for biodiesel. Under all scenarios, biofuels investments accelerate GDP growth and reduce poverty … are drawn away from food production. A skills-shortage amongst female workers also limits poverty reduction. Policy …

faster than the rural population. However, poverty is still severe in Ethiopia and is concentrated in rural areas. To … accelerate growth and poverty reduction, Ethiopia’s national strategy affords an important role to agriculture as a source of …

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

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 …

Rapid economic growth does not appear to have significantly improved poverty and nutrition outcomes in Tanzania. We … and microsimulation model. Results indicate some inconsistency between recent growth and poverty measurements in Tanzania …. We also find that the structure of economic growth may have constrained the rate of poverty reduction. Agricultural …