Using data from Mexico, the authors study empirically the link between trade policy and individual income risk and the … extent to which this varies across workers of different human capital (education) levels. They use longitudinal income data … on workers to estimate time-varying individual income risk parameters in different manufacturing sectors in Mexico …

This paper identifies and estimates the strength of the reduction in poverty linked to improved opportunities for women … in the expanding maquila sector. A simulation exercise shows that, at a given point in time, poverty in Honduras would … have been 1.5 percentage points higher had the maquila sector not existed. Of this increase in poverty, 0.35 percentage …

emergence from poverty depend on individual household characteristics of economic participation and asset holding. To fully … incidence of Vietnam's accession to the World Trade Organization. Provincial-level poverty reduction after full liberalization …, but the northwestern area of Vietnam is likely to lag behind. Furthermore, poverty can be shown to increase under …

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 …

powerful poverty-reducing tool given their greater importance in the income of the poor. …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 …

liberalization is accompanied by reduced income inequality in low-income countries. Within-country inequality is also positively …

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 … find income gains associated with cotton production, as well as positive impacts on the long-run nutritional status of …