dataset and methodological approach for evaluating the global poverty and inequality effects of policy reforms. It finds that … liberalization of agriculture and food could increase global extreme poverty (US …

remittances (from Ghana) and international remittances (from African and other countries) on poverty and inequality in Ghana. To … internal and international remittances reduce the level, depth, and severity of poverty in Ghana. However, the size of the … poverty reduction depends on the type of remittances received. In general, poverty in Ghana is reduced more by international …

liberalization on inequality are correlated with relative factor endowments. Trade liberalization is associated with increases in … inequality in countries well-endowed in highly skilled workers and capital or with workers that have very low education levels … inequality in countries that are well-endowed with primary-educated labor. Similar results are also apparent when decile data are …

"The author analyzes the stability of the empirical relationship between growth and changes in inequality over time. He … concludes that while during the 1970s and 1980s the growth process was not accompanied by increases in inequality, during the … explores the impact of this structural change in the rate of poverty reduction and concludes that it is far from negligible …

social assistance transfers targeted to the poor; and a possible decline in racial inequality. Although poverty dynamics …"Measured by the Gini coefficient, income inequality in Brazil rose from 0.57 in 1981 to 0.63 in 1989, before falling … back to 0.56 in 2004. This latest figure would lower Brazil's world inequality rank from 2nd (in 1989) to 10th (in 2004 …

"The main objective of this paper is to provide an ex-ante assessment of the poverty and income distribution impacts of … poverty is not too large, its dispersion across households-due to their heterogeneity of factor endowments, inputs use … enlarging its own liberalization to countries other than the United States to boost trade-induced poverty reductions. "--World …

of per capita income has important implications for the relative roles of income growth and inequality changes in poverty … reduction. When poverty reduction is the overriding policy objective, poorer and relatively equal countries may be willing to … tolerate modest increases in income inequality in exchange for faster growth-more so than richer and highly unequal countries …

"Theories of poverty traps stand in sharp contrast to the view that anybody can make it through hard work and thrift …. However, empirical detection of poverty traps is complicated by the lack of long panels, measurement error, and attrition … dynamics and testing for the presence of poverty traps. The paper explicitly allows for individual heterogeneity in income …