The aim of this paper is to assess the possible impacts of the Doha Round of negotiations on poverty in Cameroon …. During the recent period of economic recovery, Cameroon has enjoyed a sharp decline in poverty with the headcount index … model which involves 10,992 households in order to address this question. The Doha Round is found to be poverty reducing for …

trends scenario. Finally, rebalancing reduces the prevalence of poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa compared with the isolated … negative effects of China's slowdown, which slightly increase the incidence of poverty. Overall, China's slowdown and … poverty, but the extent of this varies by country …

The primary objective of this study is to analyze the impact on Bangladesh of increased market access in India, both … within a static production structure and also identifying dynamic gains. The study shows that Bangladesh and India would both … gain by opening up their markets to each other. Indian investments in Bangladesh will be very important for the latter to …

This paper analyzes the impact of large-scale expansion of biofuels on the global income distribution and poverty. A … results to calculate the impacts on poverty and global income inequality. The study finds that the large-scale expansion of … down the rural to urban migration in many developing countries. The study also shows that the effects on poverty vary …

This paper presents results from four simulations of the impact of potential tax reforms in Pakistan on poverty, shared … sales and corporate tax rates differ mildly in their impacts on consumption and poverty. Endogenously modeled tax evasion …

. Secondly, by testing the hypothesis empirically using a unique firm level dataset from Bangladesh, where issues of financial …

The challenges associated with poverty measurement with a cardinal variable have received due attention during the last … four decades, but there is a dearth of literature studying how to meaningfully assess poverty with an ordinal variable …. This paper first proposes a class of simple, intuitive and policy-relevant poverty measures for ordinal variables. These …

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 …

Survey 2016/17. This survey instrument will be used by the Government of Bangladesh to estimate reliable poverty and welfare …This paper describes the design of a multi-stage stratified sample for the Bangladesh Household Income and Expenditure …