growth and poverty alleviation. … Industry Protection -- 4. Other Common Arguments for Protection -- Part II -- 5. Trade Openness, Growth, and Poverty: Exposing … the Critics' Specious Arguments -- 6. Trade Openness and Growth: The Empirical Evidence -- 7. Trade Openness and Poverty …

growth and poverty alleviation. …

America with still a relatively large agricultural sector and high degrees of rural poverty. In 2005, the country signed a … reference to the agricultural sector and rural poverty. The section that follows describes the main features of the CGE model … and the micro-simulation methodology used to assess the impact on poverty and inequality. The author then lay out the …

This chapter reviews the empirical evidence on the levels and trends in income/consumption inequality and poverty in … poverty across countries and regions, an assessment of trends in these variables since the early 1980s, and a general … discussion of their determinants. There has been tremendous progress in the measurement of inequality and poverty in the …

Using comparable fiscal incidence analysis, this paper examines the impact of fiscal policy on inequality and poverty … targeted at the rich. While fiscal policy always reduces inequality, this is not the case with poverty. Fiscal policy increases … poverty in 4 countries using a US$1.25/day PPP poverty line, in 8 countries using a US$2.50/day line, and in 15 countries …