income. Hence effective education policies should be an essential component of any poverty-reduction strategy. …

specialising in those activities the household is relatively good at. They also tend to benefit more from agricultural growth. …

the population and would reduce poverty. Opportunity-led diversification, by contrast, would increase inequality and have … opportunity-led diversification. Yet, the poverty and inequality implications of the differently motivated diversification … from the latter. Simple simulation exercises illustrate the inequality-increasing and very limited poverty effects of …

poverty and income distribution in Bolivia. The simulation results suggest that FDI inflows enhance economic growth and reduce … urban and rural areas. The Bolivian government may promote growth-enhancing and poverty-alleviating effects of FDI by … poverty. However, the income distribution typically becomes more unequal. In particular, FDI widens income disparities between …