"This paper identifies and estimates the strength of the reduction in poverty linked to improved opportunities for … women in the expanding maquila sector. A simulation exercise shows that, at a given point in time, poverty in Honduras would … have been 1.5 percentage points higher had the maquila sector not existed. Of this increase in poverty, 0.35 percentage …

dataset and methodological approach for evaluating the global poverty and inequality effects of policy reforms. It finds that … liberalization of agriculture and food could increase global extreme poverty (US$1 a day) by 0.2 percent and lower moderate poverty … poverty while South Asia-where half of the world's poor reside-experiences an increase in extreme poverty incidence due to …

This paper reviews the empirical evidence on the existence of poverty traps, understood as self-reinforcing mechanisms … through which poor individuals or countries remain poor. Poverty traps have captured the interest of many development policy … makers, because poverty traps provide a theoretically coherent explanation for persistent poverty. They also suggest that …