Global deregulation of current and capital account is often touted as successful means to reduce poverty and inequality …, income inequality between countries grows, the absolute number of people living in poverty increases, and poverty rate … the poor. Using data from the World Bank, the IMF and the UN, we test the impact of increased deregulation on the incomes …

The authors illustrate some of the potential consequences of the World Trade Organization's Doha Round of multilateral … trade negotiations on incomes and poverty globally. Using the global LINKAGE model to generate changes in domestic and … international prices that have a direct impact on factor incomes and consumer prices, they estimate the change in real income at the …

This paper examines the poverty impacts of global merchandise trade reform by looking at a wide range of developing … countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Overall, the authors find that trade reform tends to reduce poverty primarily … through the inclusion of agricultural components. The majority of developing country sample experiences small poverty …

incomes and poverty globally. Using the global LINKAGE model to generate changes in domestic and international prices that … have a direct impact on factor incomes and consumer prices, we estimate the change in real income at the poverty line that … would accompany various reform scenarios. When accompanied by additional information about the elasticity of poverty with …

study reviews recent trends in the rice market, and assesses the poverty and distributional effects of rice tariffication … and palay prices. The price and associated economic adjustments are expected to cause an increase in income poverty as …