alive, enterprises afloat, and households out of poverty. The pandemic has macroeconomic dimensions. First, it affects … macroeconomic stability and growth. Second, the tools of macroeconomic policy-fiscal and monetary policy together with debt … deficit and debt ratios. This paper discusses these macroeconomic dimensions, focusing on the developing world. The paper …

under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility, and Request for Waiver of Nonobservance of Performance Criterion is … debt. Short-term risks to economic growth and the balance of payments have emerged because of the global financial crisis …

credit expansion. In 2005, this boom helped to offset the drag on the economy from marked real currency appreciation, weaker …

resulted in a reduction of poverty in Africa. Inter-country variations in income and human poverty reinforce the established … patterns of well-being within the continent, as countries in Northern and Southern Africa have the lowest levels of poverty …. The empirical analysis reveals that inter- country differences in poverty levels can be accounted for by variables …