spectacularly narrowed down, but this effect is dwarfed by that of world-price volatility. A counterfactual analysis based on a … at the regional level. After taking into account the reduction in Madagascar's monopoly power on the world vanilla market …,000 individuals out of poverty. "--World Bank web site …

Indonesia is one of the largest commodity exporters in the world, and given its mineral potential and expected … commodity growth is considerable. Indonesia is the largest producer of palm oil in the world (export earnings totaled almost US … nickel reserves in the world. This report consists of seven chapters. The first six chapters present an examination and an …

vulnerable population. Four Decades of Poverty Reduction in China: Drivers, Insights for the World, and the Way Ahead explores …Regardless of the poverty line used, the speed and scale of China's poverty reduction are historically unprecedented …. Over the past 40 years, the number of people in China with incomes below US$1.90 per day—the international poverty line as …