Education is often promoted as the solution to poverty in the developing world. Yet, fiscal discipline has led to … reductions in public spending on education. We examine the poverty impacts of a cut in public subsidies to higher education … a higher education subsidy cut reduces welfare and increases poverty in Vietnam. While rural and agricultural households …

Poverty is different for ... …

The paper examines the possible impact of Doha agreement on Philippine poverty. Using a detailed CGE analysis, the … agreement is observed to depress world demand for Philippine agricultural exports, and thus slightly increase poverty …

CGE model is used to run a series of policy experiments. Poverty is found to increase slightly with the implementation of …. If an indirect tax is used, the incidence of poverty falls marginally, but the depth (poverty gap) and severity (squared … poverty gap) increase substantially. If, instead, an income tax is used, all measures of poverty increase. In both cases, full …

reforms on income distribution. Concerns such as the social implications of structural adjustment policies, poverty …/inequality effects of trade liberalization, pro-poor or inclusive growth or the poverty impacts of the global food and, subsequently …