prices, and poverty in the agriculture sector. We first focus on how export taxes have impacted trade and international …, vegetables, oilseeds and oils. We then use a computable general equilibrium model to examine the impacts to trade and poverty if …

a failure to follow the national trend in poverty reduction. Schooling costs appear to play a large role in this … relationship between poverty, schooling, and child labor. Extrapolating from our results, our estimates imply that roughly half of … India's rise in schooling and a third of the fall in child labor during the 1990s can be explained by falling poverty and …

more likely to be alive than the poor's mothers. Using panel data set for Indonesia and Vietnam, we also find that older …

Human capital, including health and nutrition, has played a key role in the literature on poverty traps. Economic … and, thereby, push individuals into poverty. Three potential concerns in this literature are explored with empirical … evidence drawn from primary longitudinal survey data collected before and after two major shocks in Indonesia: the 1998 …

The recent financial crisis in Indonesia has resulted in dramatic price increases. Using very recent data, we …

to poorest. When poverty is defined using per-capita expenditure and the common PPP$2 per day threshold, we find that … poverty: the results of community-based methods are more correlated with how individual community members rank each other and …

that this is one of the reasons for persistent poverty and very high income inequality in Botswana today. This leaves us …

worsening of various income inequality indexes and we estimate poverty rates and headcounts. We then analyze some of the central …