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 …

Poverty reduction is deemed to be a centrepiece of the Doha Development Agenda (DDA) currently being negotiated under … the auspices of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Yet there is considerable debate about the poverty impacts of such an … agreement. Some are convinced it will increase poverty, while others are equally convinced that it will lead to poverty …

This study reports on the findings from a major international research project investigating the poverty impacts of a … studies of the national poverty impacts of these DDA scenarios. The focus countries are Bangladesh, Brazil (2 studies …

Relation between trade, inequality and poverty within countries is not beyond controversy. Under free trade and … competitive conditions, trade promotes growth, and growth reduces poverty. In general, trade liberalisation has long been seen as … at the minimum cost. Reducing trade costs can have a profound impact on trade and therefore on poverty. Based on primary …