Growth and poverty reduction in Africa are weakly linked. This paper argues that the reason is that Africa has failed … countries with a low employment intensity of growth. The paper proposes a new approach to aid and poverty in Africa, one that …

Trade promotes economic growth, alleviates poverty and helps countries reach their development goals. However … the role of trade in development, but also helped secure increased resources."Trade for Growth and Poverty Reduction: How … Aid for Trade Can Help" explains how Aid for Trade can foster economic growth and reduce poverty, and why it is an …

This paper discusses AfT's role in reducing poverty. Using cross-country data for 52 countries during 2000-2011, it … assesses whether AfT has had a measurable direct effect on poverty in Africa. The paper finds compelling evidence that AfT has … directly impacted on poverty, particularly in LDCs and landlocked countries by improving their productive capacities and trade …

In this study, we derive a poverty-minimizing allocation rule, based on which we assess the povertyefficiency of actual … less aid than the allocation rule specifies). The estimated poverty-reducing efficiency varies considerably across donors … the new donors stand for a non-negligible share of overall poverty reduction, together they perform below average in terms …

links between various macroeconomic variables related to growth and poverty reduction …

International development and co-operation policies try to achieve two goals simultaneously: poverty alleviation and … two goals whenever western development policies are applied to, or within, dictatorships. In any such cases, more poverty … underlying thesis is that this arrangement would be able to overcome the trade-off between poverty alleviation and …