on growth, employment and poverty in South Africa. More specifically, it examines how men and women have been affected … differently and whether liberalization has contributed to the faster rise in female unemployment and poverty. The results suggest … that trade policies have not contributed to increased poverty and that trade-induced technological change has accelerated …

Rapid economic growth has failed to significantly improve poverty and nutrition outcomes in Tanzania. This raises … concerns over a decoupling of growth, poverty, and nutrition. We link recent production trends to household incomes and caloric … availability using a dynamic computable general equilibrium and micro-level poverty and nutrition modules. Results indicate that …

faster than the rural population. However, poverty is still severe in Ethiopia and is concentrated in rural areas. To … accelerate growth and poverty reduction, Ethiopia’s national strategy affords an important role to agriculture as a source of …

Measuring poverty remains a complex and contentious issue. This is particularly true in sub-Saharan Africa where … poverty rates are higher, information bases typically weaker, and the underlying determinants of welfare relatively volatile … poverty with focus on the period 2002/03 to 2008/09. The paper contributes in four areas. First, the period in question was …

to reduce poverty than increasing export-crop production. This conclusion is based on case studies of ten low …

why. In addition, the impact of the crises on employment and poverty is in dispute. We develop a dynamic computable … commodity crisis increased employment and reduced poverty by favouring labour-intensive exports, especially in agriculture. The … people below the US$2-a-day poverty line, with the vast majority of these being rural dwellers. The net effect of the crises …

While economic growth generally reduces income poverty, there are pronounced differences in the strength of this … relationship across countries. Typical explanations for this variation include measurement errors in growth-poverty accounting and … country’s growth-poverty relationship and performance. Using multiplier and structural path analysis, we compare the …

Rapid economic growth does not appear to have significantly improved poverty and nutrition outcomes in Tanzania. We … and microsimulation model. Results indicate some inconsistency between recent growth and poverty measurements in Tanzania …. We also find that the structure of economic growth may have constrained the rate of poverty reduction. Agricultural …