and growth, and growth and poverty. We contribute to this literature by exploring the relationships between inequality …, trade liberalisation, growth and poverty in a sample of exclusively developing countries. We find moderately robust evidence … evidence that inequality, growth or trade liberalisation are significant determinants of cross-country variations in poverty …

poverty in developing countries. There is relatively little empirical evidence addressing this question directly, but a lot of … relationship between trade liberalisation and poverty, so that the picture is much less negative than is often suggested in popular … debate. In the long run and on average, trade liberalisation is highly likely to be poverty alleviating, and there is no …