Poverty incidence has been declining in the Philippines over the past 10 years. However, with the advent of the Asian … crisis in 1997, there was a reversal in poverty trends. Estimates indicate that the headcount index has gone up to 40 percent … in 1998 from 31.8 percent in 1997. Other nonincome-based measures of poverty also suggest deterioration in the welfare …

This study begins with an overview of the poverty situation in the Philippines. It then takes a brief look at the poor … the relationship among trade, poverty and the structural transformation of the Philippine economy …

trade and poverty maps for almost 2,000 Mexican municipalities between 2004 and 2014, the study presented in this paper … provides new evidence on the impact of a significant rise in exports on poverty and inequality at the local level. The analysis …), but no significant effects on poverty reduction or average household incomes are identified. The lack of impacts on …

trade and poverty maps for almost 2,000 Mexican municipalities between 2004 and 2014, the study presented in this paper … provides new evidence on the impact of a significant rise in exports on poverty and inequality at the local level. The analysis …), but no significant effects on poverty reduction or average household incomes are identified. The lack of impacts on …

This paper investigates if trade can help achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal of poverty … household may be lifted out of or pushed into poverty. The impacts of trade on growth and longer-term consequences of trade … is significant heterogeneity in the poverty impacts of trade, both across households and countries. This highlights the …

and youth - over the last two decades. The paper shows that while Tunisia has significantly reduced poverty between 2000 … and 2019, the profile of the poor has not changed much: poverty remains concentrated in rural and western regions, mainly … agriculture and construction. Moreover, the share of the vulnerable Tunisian population at risk of falling into poverty is quite …

greater rates of poverty decline and gains in wages and employment. We extend this literature by estimating the impact of …

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

This paper examines the impact of access to international agro-manufacture markets on poverty in Argentina. Measures of … international price of Argentine exports of agro-manufactures to increase by between 7.5 and 15.4 percent. I explore two poverty … impact of higher food prices on the Argentine poverty line. Using a labor force survey, I estimate the responses of wages to …