agricultural development in Timor-Leste and how such development can be achieved. This is done in two steps. The first one takes … prices, cash crop prices and prices of manufactured goods) are investigated. -- Timor-Leste ; Agriculture ; Poverty … ; Development ; Rural …

relationship between economic and social globalization and absolute income poverty ex post. We use the globalization index … developed by Dreher (2006) and the World Bank poverty estimates. Using a fixed-effect panel based on five-year averages and … using a "long run" first difference regression, we find a robust negative correlation between globalization and poverty. We …

In this study, we derive a poverty-minimizing allocation rule, based on which we assess the povertyefficiency of actual … less aid than the allocation rule specifies). The estimated poverty-reducing efficiency varies considerably across donors … the new donors stand for a non-negligible share of overall poverty reduction, together they perform below average in terms …

origins. This paper analyzes one factor at a critical stage of human development: exposure to maternal stress from family … originating in the perinatal period in early childhood. Our results imply large welfare gains from preventing fetal exposure to …