This paper estimates the potential effects of a free trade agreement (FTA) between China and Mercosur on poverty … likely effects of an FTA with China on poverty and income distribution. We find that the FTA would result in a small … reduction in poverty as well as an improvement in the income distribution. Highly disaggregated data at the industry level is …

different results in absolute terms, we show that potential differences in the measurement of distributional and poverty effects … terms of their implications for measuring the poverty and distributional effects of poverty reduction strategies. These …

It has been noted that failure to meet the target set by government for reducing the head count ratio of child poverty … argument that absolute poverty is not a meaningful idea, this apology for the failure of government to meet poverty targets …

parameters in this model remain unknown. This study attempts to investigate these properties through a non-parametric bootstrap … varying the number of bootstrap replications. Results of this study show that their empirical distribution are asymmetrical in … interesting point worth mentioning is that the minimum number of replications needed for the bootstrap confidence interval to be a …