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dataset and methodological approach for evaluating the global poverty and inequality effects of policy reforms. It finds that … liberalization of agriculture and food could increase global extreme poverty (US …
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"Brazil's inequalities in welfare and poverty across and within regions can be accounted for by differences in …
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remittances (from Ghana) and international remittances (from African and other countries) on poverty and inequality in Ghana. To … internal and international remittances reduce the level, depth, and severity of poverty in Ghana. However, the size of the … poverty reduction depends on the type of remittances received. In general, poverty in Ghana is reduced more by international …
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"Using tariffs as a measure of openness, the authors find consistent evidence that the conditional effects of trade liberalization on inequality are correlated with relative factor endowments. Trade liberalization is associated with increases in inequality in countries well-endowed in highly...
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explores the impact of this structural change in the rate of poverty reduction and concludes that it is far from negligible …
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). Poverty incidence also followed an inverted U-curve over the past quarter century, rising from 0.30 in 1981 to 0.33 in 1993 … social assistance transfers targeted to the poor; and a possible decline in racial inequality. Although poverty dynamics … substantial contribution to poverty reduction. "--World Bank web site …
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"The main objective of this paper is to provide an ex-ante assessment of the poverty and income distribution impacts of … poverty is not too large, its dispersion across households-due to their heterogeneity of factor endowments, inputs use … enlarging its own liberalization to countries other than the United States to boost trade-induced poverty reductions. "--World …
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of per capita income has important implications for the relative roles of income growth and inequality changes in poverty … reduction. When poverty reduction is the overriding policy objective, poorer and relatively equal countries may be willing to …
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"Theories of poverty traps stand in sharp contrast to the view that anybody can make it through hard work and thrift …. However, empirical detection of poverty traps is complicated by the lack of long panels, measurement error, and attrition … dynamics and testing for the presence of poverty traps. The paper explicitly allows for individual heterogeneity in income …
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"The importance of distributional issues in policymaking creates a need for empirical tools to assess the social impact of economic shocks and policies. This paper reviews some of the modeling approaches that are currently in use at the World Bank and other international financial institutions....
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