disease, on human capital investment decisions and income growth. This research is particularly relevant to Sub-Saharan Africa … given the dramatic reduction in life expectancy due to HIV/AIDS and the potential lasting effects on growth. Our results … indicate that as life expectancy shortens so does schooling inducing a lower growth rate of income. These relationships are …

disease, on human capital investment decisions and income growth. This research is particularly relevant to Sub-Saharan Africa … given the dramatic reduction in life expectancy due to HIV/AIDS and the potential lasting effects on growth. Our results … indicate that as life expectancy shortens so does schooling inducing a lower growth rate of income. These relationships are …

contract the disease. Studies conducted in Sub-Saharan Africa during the 1980s generally found a positive correlation between … support this. An emerging strand of the literature on the AIDS epidemic in Africa posits that poverty is increasingly …

This paper examines the high value chains (HVC) for green bean exports from Africa to identify the critical points at …

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 …

Agricultural growth in Africa has accelerated, yet most of this growth has been driven by land expansion. Land …-led growth. Given the huge public investments required, this paper aims to assess the potential impacts of a green revolution …. Results from a CGE model for Ghana show that green revolution type growth is strongly pro-poor and provides substantial …

We use the concept of the product space to analyze the key features of the transformation process in Africa with a … diversification of agricultural exports is rather insignificant. Compared to Africa, Brazil appears to have experienced a more … transformation dynamics are heterogeneous, suggesting that a one-size-fits-all strategy to boost the agricultural sector in Africa is …