Education is often promoted as the solution to poverty in the developing world. Yet, fiscal discipline has led to … reductions in public spending on education. We examine the poverty impacts of a cut in public subsidies to higher education … a higher education subsidy cut reduces welfare and increases poverty in Vietnam. While rural and agricultural households …

The Philippines has undertaken substantial trade-policy reforms since the 1980s. However, the poverty impact is not … very clear and has been the subject of intense debate, most crucial of which is the likely poverty effects of liberalizing … the highly protected agricultural sector. A CGE micro-simulation model is employed to estimate and explain these impacts …

CGE model is used to run a series of policy experiments. Poverty is found to increase slightly with the implementation of …. If an indirect tax is used, the incidence of poverty falls marginally, but the depth (poverty gap) and severity (squared … poverty gap) increase substantially. If, instead, an income tax is used, all measures of poverty increase. In both cases, full …

Dutch colonial policies) and the extreme poverty witnessed in rural areas. Using historical and modern data on the …

, Asian Drama: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations, published in 1968. Myrdal pointed to the decisive nature of the … poverty reduction. People's living standards have improved significantly, and the country's socio-economic achievements are …

Many rural households in Asia have been able to move out of poverty in the presence of increasing scarcity of farmland … rice technology. An important lesson for poverty reduction is to increase agricultural productivity through the development … employment opportunities for the rural labor force. This chapter explores the key processes of long-term poverty reduction in …

households at the BOP to earn sustainable income and release their current poverty status. Originality/Value - the research is …

Using a multi-region CGE model, we evaluate the regional, multilateral and unilateral trade policy options of MERCOSUR … from the perspective of the welfare of all potential partners. In Brazil, we focus on poverty impacts. We find that the …