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

undeniable that remittances have poverty-alleviating and consumption-smoothing effects on recipient households, a key empirical …

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 …

studying both own-country and cross-country linkages. In this paper, we add Indonesia to a previously estimated small quarterly …

Indonesia's tax reform cum fiscal adjustment experience since 2001. The paper describes Indonesia's fiscal adjustment strategy … priorities are identified for Indonesia's ongoing efforts to strengthen tax administration …

This article investigates how financial development helps to reduce poverty directly through the McKinnon conduit …

poverty. It finds that growth has been increasingly driven by higher factor productivity and that a continuation of recent … 1995 has resulted in a significant decline of poverty and that prospects are favorable for Tanzania to attain its … objectives for reducing income poverty by 2015. …

impacts of the growth process. Cognizant of the vulnerability of its large population below poverty, India's authorities have …