the priority given to absolute poverty in poor countries. The pattern of externalities also suggests that there will be … too much poverty and inequality in this economy, even judged solely from the point of view of aggregate efficiency …

.3 million people (nearly 1 percent of the world's poor) into poverty …

countries to assess the impacts of changes in global food prices on poverty in individual countries and for the world as a whole …. The analysis finds that food price increases unrelated to productivity changes in developing countries raise poverty in … output. As a result, higher food prices appear to lower global poverty in the long run …

raise the world poverty headcount by an average of 24 million. The adverse poverty impact of the duty is larger when the …

to estimate the combined impact of such insulating behavior on poverty in various developing countries and globally. The … analysis finds that the actual poverty-reducing impact of insulation is much less than its apparent impact, and that its net … effect was to increase global poverty in 2008 by 8 million people, although this increase was not significantly different …

reduce some forms of poverty and inequality but worsen others, so the net effects are unclear without empirical modeling … the remaining distortions to world merchandise trade on poverty and inequality globally and in various developing … sample of 15 countries, and nine stand-alone national case studies, all point to larger reductions in poverty, especially if …

Hardly any literature exists on the relationship between equivalence scales and poverty dynamics for transitional … countries. This paper offers a new study on the impacts of equivalence scale adjustments on poverty dynamics in the Russian … household demographic composition. The adjustments for the equivalence of scales result in lower estimates of poverty lines. The …

poverty in Nepal of local and international migration for work. They apply an instrumental variable approach to deal with … observed and counterfactual household expenditure distribution. The results indicate that one-fifth of the poverty reduction in … home. The authors also show that while the increase in work migration abroad was the leading cause of this poverty …