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 …

We review the empirical evidence on the relationship between Trade Liberalization, Inequality, and Poverty based on the … measurement and identification difficulties, and despite conflicting evidence on some issues, empirical work based on country case …

We investigate the effects of the drastic tariff reductions of the 1980s and 1990s in Colombia on the wage distribution …

1980's and 1990's, Brazil and Colombia, we examine the response of the informal sector to liberalization. In Brazil, we … find no evidence of a relationship between trade policy and informality. In Colombia, we do find evidence of such a …

Colombia from 1989-1993, with a particular emphasis on the transition and including any anticipation effects. We develop an …

care models of health insurance in wealthy countries, Colombia's Régimen Subsidiado is a publicly financed insurance …

both concept and measurement and it has advantages relative to both. Poverty rates using our basic measure are very close …We propose a new measure of the rate of poverty we call the Supplemental Expenditure Poverty Measure (SEPM) based on … the minimum bundle necessary to meet basic needs. Our measure differs from conventional income and consumption poverty in …

The paper critically assesses prevailing measures of global poverty. A welfarist interpretation of global poverty lines … falling incidence of poverty globally over the last 30 years. This is mainly due to lower absolute poverty counts in the … standard. The vast bulk of poverty, both absolute and relative, is now found in the developing world …

World Distribution of Income and estimate poverty rates, poverty counts and various measures of income inequality and … welfare. Using the official $1/day line, we estimate that world poverty rates have fallen by 80% from 0.268 in 1970 to 0 … of the global poverty count in 2006 are much smaller than found by other researchers. We also find similar reductions in …