The paper addresses preferential trade agreements in Asia and the Pacific with the objective of identifying their … characteristics which can be useful in assessing the effects of their implementation. The paper relies mostly on the Asia-Pacific … important aspects of preferential trade in Asia and the Pacific: (a) the rapid proliferation of preferential trade and revealed …

a Global Partnership for Development”) with respect to the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) of Asia and the Pacific. The … access commitments of the Hong Kong WTO Ministerial Declaration of 2005 have largely been met and LDCs of the Asia-Pacific …

global economy, the debate on income disparities around the world has intensified. For the African, Caribbean and Pacific … of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries for the purposes of stability and Godliness. …

Using the Cambodia Socioeconomic Survey 2004 and employing micro-static simulation techniques, we measure the potential … impacts of cash transfer programs for children to identify targeted groups that will have the most effect on poverty and … yield significant poverty reduction. With regard to improving school attendance, the same targeted groups generally provide …

organizations and countries and in turn a vast number studies have attempted to assess the outreach and poverty impact of such … accumulating on the impact of microfinance activities on poverty reduction. In particular we ask what is the evidence on three … poverty on a permanent basis; (2) the extent to which microfinance programs reach only the better-off amongst the poor …

paper surveys the evidence from Asia and Latin America and contrasts experiences in the two regions. Studies on the former …

This paper highlights the global economic prosperity and portrays the anatomy of poverty in developing countries. It … analyses the incidence of rural and urban poverty persisting in fourteen countries including India. It address the … contradiction of coexistence of poverty and hyper economic growth in the globe. It is found that the growth elasticity of poverty is …

Developing countries attach enormous importance to physical infrastructure for poverty reduction. We contend that this … between infrastructure and poverty in India in a regional framework. Infrastructural availability improves average living … standards and lowers the incidence of poverty but the relation between infrastructural situation and inequality indicates higher …

The major aim of this chapter is to extend the poverty studies of the sixties into the seventies, it also re …-examines the evidence on rural poverty for the sixties, supplementing the results with new evidence where available, mainly to see … whether the conclusions reached by earlier authors were in fact justified. An examination of the trends in rural poverty into …