, poverty and environmental indicators will become increasingly valuable to both public and private decision makers. …

Poverty reduction is deemed to be a centrepiece of the Doha Development Agenda (DDA) currently being negotiated under … the auspices of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Yet there is considerable debate about the poverty impacts of such an … agreement. Some are convinced it will increase poverty, while others are equally convinced that it will lead to poverty …

This study reports on the findings from a major international research project investigating the poverty impacts of a … studies of the national poverty impacts of these DDA scenarios. The focus countries are Bangladesh, Brazil (2 studies …

This paper proposes a new method for ex ante analysis of the poverty impacts arising from policy reforms. Three … innovation, which is the establishment of a unique poverty level of utility and an appropriately modified set of Foster …-Greer-Thorbecke poverty measures. With these tools in hand, the authors are able to calculate the change in the head-count of poverty, poverty …

This paper proposes a new method for ex ante analysis of the poverty impacts arising from policy reforms. Three … innovation, which is the establishment of a unique poverty level of utility and an appropriately modified set of Foster …-Greer-Thorbecke poverty measures. With these tools in hand, the authors are able to calculate the change in the head-count of poverty, poverty …

trade policies would lift large numbers of developing country farm households out of poverty. In the majority of cases these … gains are not outweighed by the poverty-increasing effects of higher food prices among other households. Agricultural … analysis indicates that maximal trade-led poverty reductions occur when developing countries participate more fully in …