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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 … increases. The national poverty headcount decreases marginally as lower consumer prices outweigh the income reduction …
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This paper examines the role of multinationals and international business in poverty alleviation, based on an analysis … that maps and disentangles the impact of different types of international business activities on five dimensions of poverty … poverty is still unclear overall, we contribute to research and policy debates by identifying key insights from and main gaps …
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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 …
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This paper examined welfare and poverty impacts of trade liberalization in Bangladesh. By using a computable general … regressive pattern is observed among the urban households but it is ambiguous for the rural households. Rural poverty declined …. Except for the second simulation, the urban poverty headcount, gap and severity all worsen in other two simulations. This …
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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 …
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Bangladesh's international image is not as a popular tourism destination, and many people might be surprised to learn it has three World Heritage sites, including the Sundarbans tiger reserves. Moreover, it is part of important travel circuits for cultural and religious tourism, and has...
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reduction of poverty in the longer term, but it may also impose important short-term adjustment costs. This paper explores the … poverty implications of the current post-Doha multilateral trade reform agenda of the WTO for developing countries, so those … benefits can be weighed against perceived adjustment costs. It addresses the effects of trade reform on poverty at three levels …
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I am quite surprised that the heart of Mr. Myers's response is that we need to slow down and ponder the circumstances of the poor more carefully. I find this stance troubling. We have allowed the global poor to twist in the wind for too long. To make matters worse, we often tell them that they...
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This presentation is about poverty and redistribution in emerging economics. It was prepared for the Asian Development … Bank’s Distinguished Speakers Program held on 25 October 2011 at the ADB Headquarters. Various types of poverty alleviation …
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This paper studies the pro-poor bias of contemporary trade policy in India by estimating the household welfare effects of eliminating the current protection structure. The elimination of a pro-poor trade policy is expected to have lower welfare gains or higher welfare loss at the low end of the...
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