approach is also employed to rigorously examine the poverty-growth-inequality triangle. Finally, various simple but useful and …

increases, trade growth and shifting trade patterns will have pervasive effects on income distribution in Vietnam. In this paper …

literature doubts the ability of foreign aid to foster economic growth and development. This paper assesses the aid-growth … a positive and statistically significant causal effect on growth over the long run, with confidence intervals conforming … to levels suggested by growth theory. Aid remains a key tool for enhancing the development prospects of poor countries. …

Economic growth in Vietnam has been fairly resilient to the global commodity and financial crises, but it is unclear …

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 … impacts on growth through key intermediate outcomes. A coherent picture emerges: aid stimulates growth and reduces poverty …

-country analysis fails to find any significant link between aid flows and growth, and that aid is successful only when associated with … paper, we offer a re-examination of the literature on the aid-savings, aid-investment, and aid growth relationships, and a … coherent and positive picture of the aid-growth link emerges. Aid works, even in countries hampered by an unfavorable policy …

This paper assesses the implications of large-scale investments in biofuels for growth and income distribution. We find … that biofuels investment enhances growth and poverty reduction despite some displacement of food crops by biofuels. Overall …, the biofuel investment trajectory analyzed increases Mozambique’s annual economic growth by 0.6 percentage points and …

Ghana is relatively rare among Sub-Saharan African countries in having had sustained positive growth every year since … the mid-1980s. This paper analyses the nature of the growth and then presents an analysis of the evolution of both …-monetary outcomes, remains an important concern. This increase in inequality is one reason why growth has not led to faster poverty …

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 …

. A series of shocks, especially the fuel and food price crisis of 2008, combined with poor productivity growth in …