economic development and poverty reduction. Individual chapters by leading scholars analyze the nature of the reforms in key …

poverty in China, particularly in rural areas, which now lag so badly behind urban areas. …

impacts on poverty will certainly be very diverse, but the average impact on poverty depends upon the balance between these … nine low-income countries show that the short-run impacts of higher staple food prices on poverty differ considerably by … commodity and by country, but that poverty increases are much more frequent, and larger, than poverty reductions. The recent …

poverty will certainly be very diverse, but the average impact on poverty depends upon the balance between these two effects …-income countries show that the short-run impacts of higher staple food prices on poverty differ considerably by commodity and by … country, but, that poverty increases are much more frequent, and larger, than poverty reductions. The recent large increases …

to estimate the combined impact of such insulating behavior on poverty in various developing countries and globally. The … analysis finds that the actual poverty-reducing impact of insulation is much less than its apparent impact, and that its net … effect was to increase global poverty in 2008 by 8 million people, although this increase was not significantly different …