This paper focuses on the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper—National Strategy for Development and Integration (PRSP⠅

This dissertation includes three empirical essays on development economics and one on the economics of education. The … first essay (co-authored by Stephan Klasen) is a contribution to the debate surrounding the Millennium Development Goals … (MDGs) and the on-going debate about what international development goals should be adopted in the future. The main …

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. This paper analyzes the effectiveness of conditional cash transfer programs as a long-term incentive in the use of … protection intervention program in combating poverty in Mexico. …