We examine whether the Colombian trade reform can explain any of Colombia's decline in urban poverty between 1984 and … 1995. Our approach focuses on short- and medium- run channels through which trade reform could affect poverty. Despite the … chronological coincidence of the poverty reduction with the trade reforms over this period, we do not observe any evidence of a link …

consequences and poverty impact. The reorientation of development policy from structural adjustment to poverty reduction as the … central objective thus called for new tools to examine distributional change. This book analyzes the poverty and … Colombia and Brazil, and the gas boom in Bolivia. It uses an innovative approach that combines computable general equilibrium …

This paper evaluates the poverty impact of mutlilateral trade liberalization under Doha Round WTO negotiation, using a … multilateral trade reforms reduce poverty in the PRC, with biggest reductions occurring in the rural areas due to higher prices for … by boosting rural incomes and reducing the incidence of rural poverty significantly …