strategies and policies. The importance of the underlying poverty and distributional issues creates a need for relevant and … framework for simulating the poverty implications of the Dutch disease, a change in the terms of trade and budgetary policy. The … open economy. It is observed that, while aggregate welfare and poverty effects may be negligible, the structural and …

aversion. Illustrations based on data for Indonesia in the 1990s show a strong link between growth and poverty reduction in … that country. A decomposition of the observed poverty outcomes reveals the extent to which changes in inequality have … blunted the poverty impacts of both growth and contraction. Finally, the results also demonstrate that absolute and relative …

show that race and gender remain overwhelming determinants of this poverty profile. Thirdly, the trends in income … persistently high levels of poverty and particularly, economic inequality on the quality and sustainability of democracy. The …’s second decade of democracy. Firstly, it is clear that both absolute and relative levels of poverty have fallen for African …