consumption, and an increase in poverty. We thus recommend a gradual approach to tax reform that can make the adjustment process …

more vulnerable to poverty. We analyze the impact of some policies against informality in Uruguay, applying a general … enforcement in the informal sector. Both sets of policies are effective in reducing informality, but the effect on poverty is not … straightforward. Poverty falls as informality is reduced; however, as enforcement policies increase hiring costs for informal firms …

Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) program is one of the most important anti-poverty policies worldwide. In this document … program’s impact on output, human capital, poverty and income inequality. I also study its welfare implications and its … effects on the intergenerational transmission of poverty. The quantitative analysis reveals that a long-term implementation of …

Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) program is one of the most important anti-poverty policies worldwide. In this document … program’s impact on output, human capital, poverty and income inequality. I also study its welfare implications and its … effects on the intergenerational transmission of poverty. The quantitative analysis reveals that a long-term implementation of …

this paper is to take this discussion a step further by introducing the effect of textiles protection on poverty and its … increase in consumption for most households. Unskilled Indians are the only group to experience a reduction in poverty and … welfare increases in the short run. The average poverty gap and the squared poverty gap also follow the same pattern as …

In this paper we analyze the impact of some policies against informality on the labor market, poverty and income …-skilled workers, but in spite of that they are successful in reducing poverty and improving income distribution. Enforcement policies … have a negative impact on wages, especially for unskilled workers. The net effect on poverty is two-sided: on the one hand …

-importer countries like Indonesia. This study aims to measure the impact on poverty in Indonesia of volatility in the world price and … poverty line, it was shown that the dramatic volatility of world soybean prices during 2007–09 had a significant effect on … increasing poverty in Indonesia. The simulation result showed that a 40 per cent increase in world price raises the head count …

The study examines the effects that trade liberalization will have on poverty in Nigeria. Previous studies have been … households due to the dependence of the latter on mostly land and labor income. As a result, urban poverty decreases in the short … and long run while rural poverty increases in both periods. Policies to improve the agricultural sector will thus have to …

(CGE) Models can be used to highlight and address issues related to income distribution and poverty. The paper is divided … way, poverty. Part 2 is devoted to the presentation of a CGE model calibrated on an archetype African SAM (same as above …). One innovation in the specification of the present CGE is that it goes part way in endogenizing the poverty line and the …

(CGE) Models can be used to highlight and address issues related to income distribution and poverty. The paper is divided … way, poverty. Part 2 is devoted to the presentation of a CGE model calibrated on an archetype African SAM (same as above …). One innovation in the specification of the present CGE is that it goes part way in endogenizing the poverty line and the …