. We compare scenarios with different gender employment intensities in producing jatropha for biodiesel. Under all … 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 …

information is available about the target population. Using household data from Mozambique, we demonstrate that Gaussian … quadrature subsamples, based on relatively easy to observe household characteristics such as size and educational attainment of … members, generate better estimates of the moments of household expenditure than random samples of equal size …

Household budget surveys in sub-Saharan Africa are designed to facilitate poverty measurement and may fail to fully … underreporting by aligning consumption derived from Mozambican household surveys with national accounts. Consumption in categories … most consumed by wealthy households is more frequently underreported, and therefore scaling household level consumption by …

agriculture in which most of the poor work and live. The household survey data documents a limited reduction in consumption … poverty over the period, and what poverty reduction there has been has mostly occurred in Dar es Salaam. Indicators of non …-monetary poverty have gradually improved over the past 20 years but significant differences across the country remain. …

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. …

Detailed analyses of poverty and wellbeing in developing countries, based on household surveys, have been ongoing for … more than three decades. The large majority of developing countries now regularly conduct a variety of household surveys …, and their information base with respect to poverty and wellbeing has improved dramatically. Nevertheless, appropriate …

. -- Biofuels ; gender ; poverty ; growth ; Africa …. We compare scenarios with different gender employment intensities in producing jatropha for biodiesel. Under all … scenarios, biofuels accelerate GDP growth and reduce poverty. However, a stronger tradeoff between biofuels and food …