Concern is growing regarding the poverty impacts of trade liberalization. The strong general equilibrium effects of … to detailed poverty analysis. We bridge this gap by constructing a CGE model that explicitly models all households from a … models. Urban poverty falls and rural poverty increases as initial tariffs were highest for agriculture. Impacts increase …

We evaluate the claim that world consumption poverty has fallen during the 1990s in light of alternative assumptions … about the extent of initial poverty and the rate of subsequent poverty reduction in China, India, and the rest of the … developing world. We assess the extent of poverty using two indicators: the aggregate poverty headcount and the poverty headcount …