the potential impact of higher food prices on poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, and examines the extent to which policy … responses will benefit the poor. The paper shows that rising food prices are likely to lead to higher poverty in sub … that anti-poverty interventions ought to retain their focus on rural areas where poverty remains highest even after taking …

poverty will certainly be very diverse, but the average impact on poverty depends upon the balance between these two effects …-income countries show that the short-run impacts of higher staple food prices on poverty differ considerably by commodity and by … country, but, that poverty increases are much more frequent, and larger, than poverty reductions. The recent large increases …

cereals as well as for milk, sugar and vegetable oils could lead to a substantial increase in poverty in many of the countries …. At the same time, the data suggest that the magnitude of the increase in poverty between different countries is likely to … be different. Finally, the data suggest that a large share of the increase in poverty will consist of deeper levels of …

to estimate the combined impact of such insulating behavior on poverty in various developing countries and globally. The … analysis finds that the actual poverty-reducing impact of insulation is much less than its apparent impact, and that its net … effect was to increase global poverty in 2008 by 8 million people, although this increase was not significantly different …

individuals still live after decades of mixed progress. Evidence shows that poverty reduction on its own will not do the job of … changing composition of future food demand in the region will depend on the extent to which poverty reduction effectively leads …

poverty, especially in rural areas and among the unemployed, self-employed, and rural low-educated. The Philippines is found …Since the early 1980s the Philippines has undertaken substantial trade reform. The current Doha Round of World Trade … detailed economywide computable general equilibrium (CGE) model to run a series of policy experiments. They find that poverty …

Modifying the national poverty line to the context of observed consumption patterns of the poor is becoming popular. A … context-specific poverty line would be more consistent with preferences. This paper provides theoretical and empirical … evidence that the contrary holds and that the national poverty line is more appropriate for comparing living standards among …