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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 …
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"This paper reports on the findings from a major international research project investigating the poverty impacts of a … poverty impacts of these DDA scenarios. The focus countries include Bangladesh, Brazil (two studies), Cameroon, China (two … poverty link. It does, however, limit the ability to draw broader conclusions. Thus an additional study provides a 15-country …
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"The importance of distributional issues in policymaking creates a need for empirical tools to assess the social impact of economic shocks and policies. This paper reviews some of the modeling approaches that are currently in use at the World Bank and other international financial institutions....
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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 …
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This paper traces the links from trade shocks to poverty in developing countries. It considers the determinants of … household and individual welfare (including potential differences between household members) and then identifies six trade-to-poverty …
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income and thus reduces poverty has not changed; some suggest that this is not true for very poor countries, but this is not …This paper reviews key recent literature on the effects of trade liberalisation on poverty in developing countries and …
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