At the outset of China's reform period, the country had a far higher poverty rate than for Africa as a whole. Within … five years that was no longer true. This paper tries to explain how China escaped from a situation in which extreme poverty …

poverty reduction. The authors use a sample of 104 short-run growth spells in developing countries, between 1980 and 2001 … of growth does not matter for poverty reduction any more than the aggregate productivity intensity of growth, the … is associated with decreases in poverty, while employment-intensive growth in agriculture is correlated with poverty …

connected poverty trends. The main focus of the authors is understanding, for the case of Brazil, how a trade shock interacts … with these structural forces and ascertaining whether it enhances or hinders medium-term poverty reduction. In particular …, they consider the interactions between the migration of labor out of agriculture, a potentially important poverty reduction …

-case, "pessimistic," path to that goal would see the developing world outside China returning to its slower pace of growth and poverty … lift one billion people out of poverty. The more optimistic path would maintain the (impressive) progress against poverty …

"The Impact of Microcredit on the Poor in Bangladesh: Revisiting the Evidence," by David Roodman and Jonathan Morduch … (1998) article "The Impact of Group-Based Credit on Poor Households in Bangladesh: Does the Gender of Participants Matter …?" that microcredit for women had significant, favorable effects on poverty reduction. In this paper the authors show that …

survey data in Bangladesh shows that per capita consumption was higher in remittance-receiving households than in others …

impacts of rural road projects using household-level panel data from Bangladesh. Rural road investments are found to reduce … poverty significantly through higher agricultural production, higher wages, lower input and transportation costs, and higher …

scenario has negative implications for the overall macroeconomy, household welfare, and poverty in Bangladesh. Terms of trade …The authors examine the effects of WTO agreements and domestic trade policy reforms on production, welfare, and poverty … in Bangladesh. They use a sequential dynamic computable general equilibrium (CGE) model, which takes into account …

This paper analyzes the distributional impacts of trade reforms in rural areas of Bangladesh. The liberalization of …

countries. To promote a better understanding of IAP, the authors investigate the determinants of IAP in Bangladesh using the … poor families in Bangladesh …