strategies and policies. The importance of the underlying poverty and distributional issues creates a need for relevant and … framework for simulating the poverty implications of the Dutch disease, a change in the terms of trade and budgetary policy. The … open economy. It is observed that, while aggregate welfare and poverty effects may be negligible, the structural and …

assessment of the direct and indirect impacts of higher prices on global poverty using a representative sample of 63 to 93 … that the implied increase in the extreme poverty headcount at the global level is 1.7 percentage points, with significant …) could raise global poverty in 2010 by 0.6 percentage points at the extreme poverty line and 0.9 percentage points at the …

cereals as well as for milk, sugar and vegetable oils could lead to a substantial increase in poverty in many of the countries …. At the same time, the data suggest that the magnitude of the increase in poverty between different countries is likely to … be different. Finally, the data suggest that a large share of the increase in poverty will consist of deeper levels of …

the potential impact of higher food prices on poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, and examines the extent to which policy … responses will benefit the poor. The paper shows that rising food prices are likely to lead to higher poverty in sub … that anti-poverty interventions ought to retain their focus on rural areas where poverty remains highest even after taking …

could influence consumption and poverty rates in some unexpected and even counter-intuitive ways. Relatively well-off groups … shock is spread through the economy, although the poor are most affected because they consume somewhat more energy in … the consumption of the poor is linked more directly to the price of wood fuel. And, child poverty is most closely linked …

external assistance to accelerate reconstruction efforts. This report explores the links between disaster impacts and poverty …

Burkina Faso's Poverty Reduction Strategies (PRS) of the 2000s, which were implemented as annually rolled-over Priority … has been through several exogenous shocks and crises likely to have affected the pattern of poverty outcomes. In the past …