outcomes. It finds that while poverty has fallen across the region over the last two decades, inequality has increased …, dampening the impact of growth on poverty reduction. As a result, relative to other emerging and developing regions and to Asia …

for poverty alleviation. Although there are likely to be substantial efficiency gains from tariff reductions, these accrue …

This paper uses the 1991 Indian trade liberalization to measure the impact of trade liberalization on poverty, and to … more exposed to liberalization were concentrated, experienced slower decline in poverty and lower consumption growth. The …

This paper investigates the link between macroeconomic performance and the change in the poverty rate among 47 episodes … greater the inequality, the lower the elasticity of poverty to growth, and the higher the mean income, the higher the … downturn; and (iii) higher growth does not bring diminishing returns to poverty reduction. Moreover, we show that very high …

This paper provides a brief and selective overview of research on the links between macroeconomic policies and poverty …

This survey of the recent literature asks: how important is trade policy for poverty reduction? We consider the effects … of openness on poverty in two components: the effect of openness on average income growth, and the effect on distribution … of growth and poverty reduction. Trade openness has important positive spillovers on other aspects of reform, however, so …