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 …

This paper reports on the findings from a major international research project investigating the poverty impacts of a … poverty impacts of these DDA scenarios. The focus countries include Bangladesh, Brazil (two studies), Cameroon, China (two … poverty link. It does, however, limit the ability to draw broader conclusions. Thus an additional study provides a 15-country …

Brazil's slow pace of poverty reduction over the last two decades reflects both low growth and a low growth elasticity … of poverty reduction. Using GDP data disaggregated by state and sector for a twenty-year period, this paper finds … considerable variation in the poverty-reducing effectiveness of growth-across sectors, across space, and over time. Growth in the …

This paper contributes to explain the cross-country heterogeneity of the poverty response to changes in economic growth …' wages and, thus, poverty alleviation. Then it presents cross-country empirical evidence that analyzes first, the … differential poverty-reducing impact of sectoral growth at various levels of disaggregation, and the role of unskilled labor …

The authors develop a macroeconomic framework that captures links between aid, public investment, growth, and poverty … impact of policy shocks on poverty by linking the model to a household survey. They calibrate the model for Ethiopia and … should increase to reach the poverty targets of the Millennium Development Goals. …

authors assess the impact of policy shocks on poverty by using partial growth elasticities. They perform various policy … growth and poverty reduction in Niger. …

for half of economic growth. Finally, institutions can affect poverty and equity, although the effects seem generally …

in the 1990s. The authors argue that India has probably maintained its 1980s rate of poverty reduction in the 1990s … where it would have the most impact on poverty nationally. If not for the sectoral and geographic imbalance of growth, the … national rate of growth would have generated a rate of poverty reduction that was double India's historical trend rate. States …

evaluation of the impact of a series of pro-growth policies on inequality and headcount poverty. He relies on a large … the policies under consideration on growth, inequality, and poverty. The author's findings indicate that regardless of … their impact on inequality, pro-growth policies lead to lower poverty levels in the long run. However, he also finds …