restrictions (QR) on rice imports will affect poverty within two world trade scenarios: Doha and free world trade. The impact of … improves and poverty declines across household groups, but the net effects are lower in rural than in urban households. The …

commercial crops and/or modern farming practices as a result to changes which reduced domestic market distortions, opened up the … continued to produce traditional crops and were not able to escape poverty. This finding reaffirms the idea that liberalizing … problems of different subgroups in poverty if the broader poverty issue is to be improved." Authors' Abstract …

"This paper applies Gini and concentration coefficient decomposition as well as the Foster-Greer-Thorbecke poverty … migration and internal migration within the African continent and inequality, poverty, and social welfare in rural households … although international migration is associated with a much lower incidence, depth, and severity of poverty, its impact on …

on growth, employment and poverty in South Africa. More specifically, it examines how men and women have been affected … differently and whether liberalization has contributed to the faster rise in female unemployment and poverty. The results suggest … that trade policies have not contributed to increased poverty and that trade-induced technological change has accelerated …

resulting from agricultural trading policies; 3) illustrates the impact of global protectionism on poverty levels and … distribution among rural households in Africa and the implication for the objective of poverty reduction; 4) reviews the options …

, including low education levels, the dominance of subsistence farming, and the lack of access to modern financial instruments …