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 reduction …

The authors examine the effects of WTO agreements and domestic trade policy reforms on production, welfare, and poverty … macroeconomic effects and microeconomic effects in terms of poverty, the authors use the representative household approach with … scenario has negative implications for the overall macroeconomy, household welfare, and poverty in Bangladesh. Terms of trade …

trade policies would lift large numbers of developing country farm households out of poverty. In the majority of cases these … gains are not outweighed by the poverty-increasing effects of higher food prices among other households. Agricultural … analysis indicates that maximal trade-led poverty reductions occur when developing countries participate more fully in …

the dynamics of the cotton sector and the dynamics of poverty and evaluate to what extent cotton can work as a vehicle for … poverty alleviation. They find that cotton can indeed act as an effective mechanism for increased household welfare. They also …

This paper addresses the potential effects of the Doha round of trade negotiations on poverty and income distribution … distribution and poverty analysis. Of particular importance is the fact that the representative household hypothesis is replaced by …,055 Brazilian households and 263,938 adults. Poverty and income distribution indices are computed over the entire sample of …

trade negotiations on incomes and poverty globally. Using the global LINKAGE model to generate changes in domestic and … poverty line that would accompany various reform scenarios. When accompanied by additional information about the elasticity of … poverty with respect to income, this provides an estimate of the change in poverty by country. Under most liberalization …

detailed economywide computable general equilibrium (CGE) model to run a series of policy experiments. They find that poverty … mechanism the government adopts to offset forgone tariff revenue. If an indirect tax is used, the incidence of poverty falls … marginally, but the depth (poverty gap) and severity (squared poverty gap) increase substantially. If, instead, an income tax is …

The authors aim to assess the possible impacts of the Doha Round of negotiations on poverty in Cameroon. During the … recent period of economic recovery, Cameroon enjoyed a sharp decline in poverty, with the headcount index falling from 53 …) microsimulation model that involves 10,992 households in order to address this question. The authors find the Doha Round to be poverty …

, macroeconomic stability has since then been restored, and poverty has been reduced to pre-crisis levels. Poverty reduction remains … further poverty reduction in Indonesia. To provide a good technical basis for answering this question, the authors use an … generates detailed poverty outcomes of trade shocks. Given the magnitude of the shocks examined here and the structural features …

This paper reports on the findings from a major international research project investigating the poverty impacts of a … poverty impacts of these DDA scenarios. The focus countries include Bangladesh, Brazil (two studies), Cameroon, China (two … poverty link. It does, however, limit the ability to draw broader conclusions. Thus an additional study provides a 15-country …