The starting point of this paper is given by country situations where trade liberalization is expected to be poverty … and inequality alleviating in the long run while inducing a short run increase in poverty or in inequality. The question … trade policies within a global policy framework so as to enhance growth and reduce poverty and inequality. The method …

have been no studies on the association between trade facilitation and poverty as well as inequality. This paper examines … with poverty, inequality and per capita GDP. Countries with more improvement in trade facilitation are more likely to have … lower poverty and inequality, and higher per capita GDP than other countries with less improvement in trade facilitation. …

poverty by modelling the impact of technological progress in the formal sectors of the economy on the urban informal wage in a … is less capital intensive (as capital flows to the informal sectors). This helps in understanding trends in urban poverty … given the strong association between the urban informal wage and degree of urban poverty. …

This paper quantifies the distributional and poverty effects of national and external trade reform in Brazil using … zero labor income effect. Additionally, we find that poverty indicators decreased after national trade liberalization (both … poverty and inequality of a 10% increase the broiler world price. In general terms, we find an increase in poverty of two …

. These effects concentrate on senior skilled workers. Exposed locations also exhibit a relative decline in monetary poverty. …