The objective of this study was to examine the role of social security in fighting poverty in Metlaoui, Tunisia, using … the strategies adopted by households to cope with economic shocks. The estimation results of different models showed that …

poverty by 2030. This paper examines the performance of the country in poverty reduction. It also examines the reasons for the … recent performance, including the pattern of economic growth, numerous shocks experienced by the country, and government … recommendations to accelerate the rate of poverty reduction. …

household. The findings suggest that shocks decrease the asset accumulation rate of rural households by 1.4 percentage points … across all four countries. While health shocks decrease households' asset accumulation rate by 1.2 to 1.4 percentage points …, the effect of drought and flood shocks is twice as high. At the country level, the effect of flood shocks on asset growth …

, measuring the pro-poorness of the growth process is complex due to (i) measurement errors and (ii) effect shocks that may hit … presence of shocks. We consider Indonesia in 2000-07 and 2007-14 - two growth spells in which there was substantial … individual recovery from previous negative losses, rather than resulting from purely exogenous positive shocks. …

We survey the latest research on the linkages between international trade, regional integration, poverty and food … extensive literature on the impacts of trade reform on poverty outcomes, research on the actual and potential effects of trade …

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 …