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 …

The transitional economies of the Former Soviet Union (FSU) have enjoyed an extraordinary period of growth and poverty … households. The paper assesses the relative importance of these transfers for welfare and poverty in Moldova, the poorest country … effective in improving welfare and reducing poverty whereas social assistance transfers have little or no effect. Social …