inequality adjusted social welfare functions in a general equilibrium structure mapping from tariff protection to household … social welfare into real income level and variance components and emphasizing Gini and Atkinson indexes. We embed these … inequality. This yields predictions regarding the linkages between trade protection, country characteristics and inequality …

household welfare or reduce poverty. Double difference estimates point to a negative impact on welfare. Parametric estimates do … not yield any consistent significant impact on welfare or poverty. The author concludes that the growth in population …This paper assesses the impact of social assistance benefits on household welfare in Moldova. Ignoring standard issues …

inequality may be very different from those in true inequality, that is, that measured using household-specific CPIs. The authors … explore empirically these issues using household data covering nine episodes from four Latin American countries (Brazil … the inflation faced by the poorest consumers. As a result of this bias, the observed increases in nominal inequality …

alleviation at the national level, while Cameroon's domestic trade liberalization has adverse poverty and inequality impacts …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 …

Cameroon is engaged in the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) process, which emphasizes increased focus on poverty … reduction in the design and implementation of growth and adjustment strategies. The Integrated Macroeconomic Model for Poverty … process and quantifying poverty reduction strategies. Drawing on that framework, this paper provides a detailed financial …

household labor income and poverty in Brazil. The authors first estimate the extent of price transmission from world markets to …

, Brazil. Infrastructure and social investments have been made in the community through a government program, with community …

Measured by the Gini coefficient, income inequality in Brazil rose from 0.57 in 1981 to 0.63 in 1989, before falling … back to 0.56 in 2004. This latest figure would lower Brazil's world inequality rank from 2nd (in 1989) to 10th (in 2004 … the determinants of Brazil's distributional reversal over this period. The rise in inequality in the 1980s appears to have …

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 …