authors assess the impact of policy shocks on poverty by using partial growth elasticities. They perform various policy … growth and poverty reduction in Niger. This paper--a product of Poverty Reduction and Economic Management 3, Africa Technical … Families--is part of a larger effort in the region to formulate country-specific growth strategies"--World Bank web site …

"The paper presents a major overhaul to the World Bank's past estimates of global poverty, incorporating new and better … data. Extreme poverty-as judged by what "poverty" means in the world's poorest countries-is found to be more pervasive than … we thought. Yet the data also provide robust evidence of continually declining poverty incidence and depth since the …

"This paper reports on the findings from a major international research project investigating the poverty impacts of a … are built up using newly available tariff line data and their implications for world markets are established using a … global modeling framework. These world trade impacts, in turn, form the basis for 12 country case studies of the national …