Trade, poverty, and social protection in developing countries

Trade Facilitation in Developing Countries

Measures to actively facilitate trade are increasingly seen as essential to assist developing countries in expanding trade and benefiting from globalisation. Although often viewed as narrowly concerned with the ease and speed of Customs procedures, even greater trade cost reductions and trade and welfare benefits may be reaped from a broader view of trade facilitation (TF) that incorporates tra...

Urban Poverty and HealtH in develoPing CoUntries

ABout the Author MaRk R. MontgoMeRy is a professor in the economics department at Stony Brook University and a senior associate with the Population Council's Poverty, Gender, and Youth Program. His current research interests include the links between poverty and demographic behavior in the cities of developing countries; measurement of poverty and poverty dynamics using proxy variables; and the...

Urban Transport and Poverty in Developing Countries

Agricultural Productivity and Poverty in Developing Countries

Extensions to DFID Report No.7946 Lin Lin, Victoria McKenzie, Jenifer Piesse and Colin Thirtle * Environmental Policy and Management Group T.H.Huxley School of Environment, Earth Sciences and Engineering Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, SW 7 2BP ** School of Management and Organizational Psychology Birkbeck College, University of London, London, WC 1E 7HX and Univer...

Poverty Traps and Social Protection ?

This paper demonstrates that there are potentially large returns to social protection policy that stakes out a productive safety net below the vulnerable and keeps them from slipping into a poverty trap. Much of the value of the productive safety net comes from mitigating the ex ante e¤ects of risk and crowding in additional investment. The analysis also explores the implications of di¤erent me...