China's remarkable poverty alleviation is quite uneven across regions in the last quarter of the century. It is … important to explore why China has such huge disparity in poverty distribution in spite of overall dramatic economic growth and … the issue of regional disparities in poverty distribution in China. It finds an increasing concentration of the rural poor …

This chapter reviews the evidence on the linkages between globalization and poverty, drawing on the collected works of …, Globalization and Poverty. We focus on two measures of global¬ization: trade integration (measured using tariffs or trade flows … globalization to poverty reduction via the growth effects of trade reforms is likely to be important. …

This study aims at examining the impact of Special Economic Zones (SEZs) on human development and poverty reduction in …

This paper identifies and estimates the strength of the reduction in poverty linked to improved opportunities for women … in the expanding maquila sector. A simulation exercise shows that, at a given point in time, poverty in Honduras would … have been 1.5 percentage points higher had the maquila sector not existed. Of this increase in poverty, 0.35 percentage …

liberalization to economic development and poverty alleviation is extremely limited. Calculation of the benefits to be expected of …

This paper estimates the potential effects of a free trade agreement (FTA) between China and Mercosur on poverty … likely effects of an FTA with China on poverty and income distribution. We find that the FTA would result in a small … reduction in poverty as well as an improvement in the income distribution. Highly disaggregated data at the industry level is …