consumption remain low. We find only weak evidence for impacts on classical poverty indicators. To inform future policy design, we …

The Philippines has undertaken substantial trade-policy reforms since the 1980s. However, the poverty impact is not … very clear and has been the subject of intense debate, most crucial of which is the likely poverty effects of liberalizing … increases. The national poverty headcount decreases marginally as lower consumer prices outweigh the income reduction …

journal Ius Inter Gentes), argues the links between improving human and legal rights protections for people living in poverty … and success in ending poverty. It then examines approaches to achieving improvement in human and legal rights of people … living in poverty, illustrating with examples from a variety of NGO programs. Previously the article has not been available …

This study examines the interrelationship between poverty and forest dependency in one of the poorest regions of India … poverty. In the absence of access to forest products, the levels of poverty would have been much higher in this already poor …

Using 2000-04 panel data this study analyses the pathways rural households followed out of poverty in two lagging … poverty reduction. Income transfers and agricultural tax abolishment have helped at the margin. Overall, the findings … highlight that the scope for reducing poverty in lagging rural regions is often substantial in agriculture, also in countries …

This paper examines the role of competition law and policy as tools for poverty reduction and development. The authors … policy as tool for poverty reduction should be on approaches that are relatively easy to implement but have a trackrecord of … poverty reduction, competition policy needs to address the needs of the citizens of poorer societies in their capacities as …

determinant of poverty. This study estimates a model of determinants of poverty in Malawi which take into account the seasonality … significant in explaining poverty in Malawi, suggesting that seasonality should not be ignored in the estimates of poverty and … poverty estimates that do not control for seasonality may be biased …

reduction of poverty in the longer term, but it may also impose important short-term adjustment costs. This paper explores the … poverty implications of the current post-Doha multilateral trade reform agenda of the WTO for developing countries, so those … benefits can be weighed against perceived adjustment costs. It addresses the effects of trade reform on poverty at three levels …