its connected poverty trends. The main focus of the authors is understanding, for the case of Brazil, how a trade shock … interacts with these structural forces and ascertaining whether it enhances or hinders medium-term poverty reduction. In … particular, they consider the interactions between the migration of labor out of agriculture, a potentially important poverty …

Vietnam has achieved remarkable success in reducing poverty while controlling inequality. The country's broad … minority groups have not only continued to experience poverty rates far above the national average, but have seen slower … progress too. This report analyzes recent trends in poverty and shared prosperity. It presents the findings of the 2016 Vietnam …

growth and poverty reduction in Niger. This paper--a product of Poverty Reduction and Economic Management 3, Africa Technical …"The authors apply the dynamic macroeconomic framework developed by Agnor, Bayraktar, and El Aynaoui (2004) to Niger … authors assess the impact of policy shocks on poverty by using partial growth elasticities. They perform various policy …

attention. To help answer such questions, and to analyze how to reduce poverty in Mali as a whole, this study uses different …This study discusses the impact of economic geography and (low) population density on development outcomes in Mali and … explores how policies to reduce poverty can be made more effective by taking these two factors into account. The crisis in …

"The paper presents a major overhaul to the World Bank's past estimates of global poverty, incorporating new and better … data. Extreme poverty-as judged by what "poverty" means in the world's poorest countries-is found to be more pervasive than … we thought. Yet the data also provide robust evidence of continually declining poverty incidence and depth since the …

"Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs aim to alleviate poverty through monetary and in-kind benefits, as well as … reduce future levels of poverty by encouraging investments in education, health, and nutrition. The success of CCT programs … at reducing poverty depends on whether, and the extent to which, cash transfers affect adult work incentives. The authors …

for half of economic growth. Finally, institutions can affect poverty and equity, although the effects seem generally …