prices, and poverty in the agriculture sector. We first focus on how export taxes have impacted trade and international …, vegetables, oilseeds and oils. We then use a computable general equilibrium model to examine the impacts to trade and poverty if …

impact of such insulating behavior on poverty in various developing countries and globally. The analysis finds that the … actual poverty-reducing impact of insulation is much less than its apparent impact, and that its net effect was to increase … global poverty in 2008 by 8 million people, although this increase was not significantly different from zero. The paper …

microlending to the poor, incorporated a widely-used poverty measurement tool into their loan applications and tested the tool …

following the transfer and persist until year 10, consistent with the alleviation of a poverty trap. One main channel for …

We examine the extent to which food insecurity questions and the standard poverty measure are correlated with various … related to the diets of children. In contrast, poverty predicts dietary outcomes among preschoolers. Among adults, both … poverty and food insecurity questions are good predictors of many dietary outcomes …