, inequality, and government spending on poverty reduction. A new panel dataset has been assembled on inequality and poverty that …

Over the last two decades, world trade and production have become increasingly organized around global value chains …

Growth is pro-poor if the poverty measure of interest falls. This implies three potential sources of pro-poor growth …: (a) a high rate of growth of average incomes; (b) a high sensitivity of poverty to growth in average incomes; and (c) a … poverty-reducing pattern of growth in relative incomes. I empirically decompose changes in poverty in a large sample of …

for poverty alleviation. Although there are likely to be substantial efficiency gains from tariff reductions, these accrue …-effective approach to poverty alleviation. Such an approach should be financed by switching revenue raising from rice tariffs to more …

This paper draws on existing empirical literature and an original theoretical model to argue that globalization and …