both poverty and economic and social alienation of the poor, because it has positive welfare effects that income support …

civil society organisations, are focusing as never before on the development priority of reducing poverty by half by 2015 …. Country-led and country-owned poverty reduction strategies focusing on local needs and priorities as determined by … stakeholders are now the focus of all development assistance efforts. The DAC Guidelines on Poverty Reduction provide practical …

advantage of EFR approaches in both their development and poverty reduction strategies. Following a review of the instruments of … EFR and related technical issues, Environmental Fiscal Reform for Poverty Reduction focuses on the political economy and …

-integration analysis to estimate simultaneously a monetary reaction function and the determinants of expected inflation for Brazil, Chile …, Colombia and Mexico in the post-1999 period. It also tests for the presence of volatility spillovers between the monetary …, Colombia and Mexico, suggesting that interest-rate smoothing contributes to reducing inflation expectations volatility. No …