We review the relationship between trade and poverty in less developed countries, surveying both relevant economic … can lead to poverty reduction, these circumstances do not always obtain. Trade liberalization will only be an effective … instrument of poverty reduction under specific structural conditions. There may be more direct and effective means of attaining …

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 …

-on poverty in Pakistan using a CGE framework. It is found that tariff reducation in the absesnce of a decline in remittances … reduces poverty, as measured by the head count, poverty gap, and severity ratios (FGT indicators) in both the rural and urban …. According to all FGT indicators, poverty increases in urban households but not in rural households. the combined shock is more …

We examine the impacts of WTO agreements and domestic trade policy reforms on production, welfare and poverty in … macro effects and micro effects in terms of poverty we use the representative household approach with actual intra … negative implications for the overall macro economy, household welfare and poverty in Bangladesh. Terms of trade deteriorate …

and unambiguously assert that trade openness is conducive to growth and poverty reduction, the preponderance of evidence … supports this conclusion. However, the majority of empirical studies also show that the impact of trade on growth and poverty …

This paper identifies and estimates the strength of the reduction in poverty linked to improved opportunities for women … in the expanding maquila sector. A simulation exercise shows that, at a given point in time, poverty in Honduras would … have been 1.5 percentage points higher had the maquila sector not existed. Of this increase in poverty, 0.35 percentage …

The problem of child labour is immense and has been growing. Wherever poverty exists, child labour there prevails and … children and point out the problems in relation to the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), particularly poverty eradication … resource of knowledge for policymakers in the fields of education programme and poverty reduction programmes. An attempt is …