After many years of relatively slow growth, Tanzania's national accounts data report accelerated aggregate growth since … around 2000. Our analysis shows that there has been somewhat slower growth in private consumption and in sectors such as … poverty over the period, and what poverty reduction there has been has mostly occurred in Dar es Salaam. Indicators of non …

Since 1994, a great deal has been accomplished. We argue that poverty reduction was temporarily sidelined in the 2000s …. A series of shocks, especially the fuel and food price crisis of 2008, combined with poor productivity growth in … agriculture and a weather shock, undermined progress in measured consumption poverty. We expect progress in poverty reduction to …

impacts on growth through key intermediate outcomes. A coherent picture emerges: aid stimulates growth and reduces poverty …Controversy over the aggregate impact of foreign aid has focused on reduced form estimates of the aid-growth link. The … causal chain, through which aid affects developmental outcomes including growth, has received much less attention. We address …

Poverty-growth elasticities are frequently calculated to provide insight into the inclusiveness of the growth process …. Mathematically, the formula employed to calculate the growth elasticity of poverty leads to lower values for higher initial poverty … and space. Poverty-growth semi-elasticities provide a more robust measure of the responsiveness of poverty to growth. …

approach is also employed to rigorously examine the poverty-growth-inequality triangle. Finally, various simple but useful and …Measuring poverty remains a complex and contentious issue. This is particularly true in sub-Saharan Africa where … poverty rates are higher, information bases typically weaker, and the underlying determinants of welfare relatively volatile …

needed. -- biofuels ; economic development ; food security ; poverty ; Africa …

'Regional growth and development in Southern Africa', and consider policy options for escaping economic stagnation. The focus is … on South Africa and South African policies yielding relatively quick dividends in terms of growth and taking the rest of …