in farm incomes and a decline in poverty levels. Our main policy conclusion here is that the commercialization of … agriculture can be conducive to a sustainable increase in smallholder incomes and reduction of poverty levels; however, policies …

we show that the plausible policy decision depend on parameters describing the balance between poverty and program … exclusion risk. In the Tunisian case, only a much larger weight put on poverty relatively to exclusion could bring the decision …

The aim of this article is to analyse in depth the interactions of growth and poverty in Syria, which undertook reforms … agriculture a decreasing one. Agricultural and land-policy reforms could have had a negative impact on poverty, despite their …

part of the population to the risk of poverty. Among households, lowincome and women are particularly vulnerable during … individualized pension raises the question of the poverty during the retirement period. In this context, could life insurances and … private pension contracts avoid the risk of poverty ? In this paper, we analyze the behaviour of life insurance holding in …

poverty using detailed micro-data across Brazilian states, from 1987 to 2005. Results suggest that Brazilian states that were … more exposed to tariff cuts experienced smaller reductions in household poverty and inequality. If significance of results … on Brazilian states depends on the choice of poverty and inequality indicators, robust and contrasting results emerge …

In this paper, a novel approach is implemented to quantify the effects on poverty and inequality of the financial …

Since 2004, the Government of Senegal has adopted an accelerated growth program in the aim o reducing poverty by half … strategy is not really in accordance with the Senegalese Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper. …