This paper addresses the potential effects of the Doha round of trade negotiations on poverty and income distribution … distribution and poverty analysis. Of particular importance is the fact that the representative household hypothesis is replaced by …,055 Brazilian households and 263,938 adults. Poverty and income distribution indices are computed over the entire sample of …

poverty and distributional impacts, the model includes ten households in each of the seven federal okrugs, where household …

Brazil's inequalities in welfare and poverty across and within regions can be accounted for by differences in household …

emergence from poverty depend on individual household characteristics of economic participation and asset holding. To fully … incidence of Vietnam's accession to the World Trade Organization. Provincial-level poverty reduction after full liberalization …, but the northwestern area of Vietnam is likely to lag behind. Furthermore, poverty can be shown to increase under …

This study employs a synthetic panel approach based on nationally representative micro-level data to track poverty and … income mobility in Malaysia in 2004-16. On aggregate, there were large reductions in chronic poverty and increases in …. Further, the poverty and income dynamics differ notably across geographic dimensions. Such disparities are most striking when …

produce spatially disaggregated poverty and inequality estimates. To test the method, they compare predicted welfare … poverty measures and lower for inequality measures. …

The authors combine household survey and census data to construct a provincial poverty map of Vietnam and evaluate the … data on the same household characteristics from the 1999 census to estimate the incidence of poverty in each province. The … results show that rural poverty is concentrated in 10 provinces in the Northern Uplands, 2 provinces in the Central Highlands …

country when interventions are aimed at addressing multiple objectives. One main concern is the tradeoff between poverty … of this model using information for Lao People's Democratic Republic show that simple poverty indicators alone do not … provide consistent guidelines for policy. However, when different poverty indicators are embedded in an optimizing model that …

Using recently completed "poverty maps" for Cambodia, Ecuador, and Madagascar, the authors simulate the impact on … poverty of transferring an exogenously given budget to geographically defined subgroups of the population according to their … relative poverty status. They find large gains from targeting smaller administrative units, such as districts or villages. But …