Panicos Demetriades -- The poverty-macroeconomic policy nexus : some short-run analytics / George Mavrotas and S. Mansoob … Murshed -- Finance and poverty in Ethiopia : a household-level analysis / Alemayehu Geda, Abebe Shimeles and Daniel Zerfu … -- Financial sector development, savings mobilization and poverty reduction in Ghana / Peter Quartey -- Finance and growth : an …

macroeconomic policies and financial deepening upon poverty through sectoral changes. This is because an expansion in certain … sectors may cause greater poverty reduction. The model involves a non-traded and a traded sector on the formal side of the … traded sector is more pro-poor compared to a similar rise in the non-traded sector as the former draws workers out of poverty …

since the late 1990s conclude that aid increases economic growth. By implication, therefore, it can be inferred that poverty …. A downturn in volumes in the 1990s is demonstrated. It asserts that poverty is higher and the MDGs are hard to achieve …

policy. This paper reviews the current evidence regarding the impact of aid on growth and poverty reduction, and develops a … concludes that aid broadly works, that poverty would be higher in the absence of aid, and that the shortfall in aid during the …-up in aid and other development finance flows is now necessary if poverty is to be substantially reduced by 2015. …