outcomes. It finds that while poverty has fallen across the region over the last two decades, inequality has increased …, dampening the impact of growth on poverty reduction. As a result, relative to other emerging and developing regions and to Asia …

from the conference, No. 18, includes the following articles: Trade Liberalization and Employment in Developing Economies … Poverty in Brazil and Chile; The Role of Transaction Costs in Explaining Economic Performance and Income Distribution: Some …

suggested. Rather than the universal devastation in poverty, employment, education and health so widely predicted and repeated …The social impacts of Indonesia’s crisis, while serious, have fortunately been less dramatic than early reports … commodities (large parts of Sulawesi, Sumatra). The new data also show that pre-crisis economic status or poverty rates are not …

Assesses the gender-differentiated impact of globalization in the past and the recent financial crisis on employment in …