also enhanced development, efficiency, and profitability. Following the reforms, banks are better capitalized, more …

country. Examining data from India, we find that while trade liberalization is associated with reduced poverty, this effect is … to be less perfect in lagging states than in leading ones, especially in the rural sector. This suggests that poverty … of their populations in lagging regions experience greater reduction in poverty rates following trade liberalization. Our …

We examine whether the Colombian trade reform can explain any of Colombia's decline in urban poverty between 1984 and … 1995. Our approach focuses on short- and medium- run channels through which trade reform could affect poverty. Despite the … chronological coincidence of the poverty reduction with the trade reforms over this period, we do not observe any evidence of a link …

Understanding the forces that lead to correlations between pollution exposure, poverty, and race is crucial to the …

The absence of self-control is often viewed as an important correlate of persistent poverty. Using a standard … poverty damages the ability to exercise self-control. Our theory invokes George Ainslie's notion of "personal rules … assets above which personal rules support unbounded accumulation, and a second threshold below which there is a "poverty trap …

Census's Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) nearly doubles the elderly poverty rate compared to the "Official" Poverty … a poverty measure's predictive validity and excluding assets exacerbates this bias, since assets fund MOOP. The SPM is … based on a 1995 NAS report that recommended a health-exclusive poverty measure, despite considering it, conceptually, a …