-of-payments liberalization, remittances, employment and poverty / Alexander Segovia and Jeannette Larde -- 9. Mexico : trade liberalization …: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Mexico, and Peru …1. Balance of payments liberalization in Latin America : effects on growth, distribution and poverty / Lance Taylor and …

pt. 1. Perspectives on Chinese development -- pt. 2. Agriculture and rural poverty -- pt. 3. Dimensions of human … development -- pt. 4. Globalization and inequality -- pt. 5. Strategies for reducing poverty and inequality …

Economic Performance in the Americas compares the economic performances of Brazil, Mexico and the USA over the past … both the main trends in the various service industries in Brazil and Mexico and the underlying forces shaping their huge …

Introduction / Jacques Silber and Guanghua Wan -- 1. An Asian poverty line? issues and options / Stephan Klasen -- 2. A … poverty line contingent on reference groups: implications for the extent of poverty in some Asian countries / Satya R …. Chakravarty, Nachiketa Chattopadhyay, and Jacques Silber -- 3. Concepts and measurement of vulnerability to poverty and other …

and Mathias Herr -- Current international development tools to combat poverty / Warner Woodworth -- Opportunities for …This unique book provides an overview of the need to alleviate poverty and what methods have been used in the past to … be used in poverty alleviation. Different models of microfranchising are reviewed and specific case studies highlighted …

The importance of agricultural growth to poverty reduction is well known, but the specific channels through which the …