This paper traces the links from trade shocks to poverty in developing countries. It considers the determinants of … household and individual welfare (including potential differences between household members) and then identifies six trade-to-poverty …

income. Hence effective education policies should be an essential component of any poverty-reduction strategy. …

other parts of the world. This issue comprises a selection of papers presented at the first international conference co … Poverty in Brazil and Chile; The Role of Transaction Costs in Explaining Economic Performance and Income Distribution: Some …

. Third, such a "no-growth trap" may happen in a world economy made up of several countries engaged in free trade with each … Produkten impliziert. Drittens kann eine solche "Null-Wachstumsfalle" in einer Welt-Ökonomie auftreten, die aus mehreren Ländern … Maßnahmen möglicherweise fehlgeleitet sein können und schnelle Deregulierung und schnelle Handelsliberalisierung potentiell zu …

We measure the effects of trade liberalization over the period of 1993-2002 on regional poverty levels in 259 … four three-year periods. We find that poverty reduced more in regions that were more strongly exposed to import tariff … increasing firm competitiveness as a driving factor behind the beneficial poverty effects. …

world. Pakistan has adopted trade liberalization policies since the late 1980s with the same expectations. This study has … to four measures of economic development: per capita GDP, income inequality, poverty and employment over the period from … employment positively but per capita GDP and income distribution negatively. However,it has not affected poverty in any way. The …

household expenditures and the possibility of computing poverty measures at a very disaggregate level. As such, we aim at … contributing with methodological advances in the assessment of the poverty impact of macro-policies. …

This survey of the recent literature asks: how important is trade policy for poverty reduction? We consider the effects … of openness on poverty in two components: the effect of openness on average income growth, and the effect on distribution … of growth and poverty reduction. Trade openness has important positive spillovers on other aspects of reform, however, so …

Using a CGE model, this study analyses the impact of trade liberalization on poverty at the household level taking … production of textile and leather products. Poverty shows a slight increase in both scenarios. At the national level, a complete … tariff cut results in an increase in poverty by 2.8 percent, while a uniform tariff scheme raises poverty by 2.3 percent …