The 2008-09 global economic crises have shown that no country is immune to external challenges. When policy controls …

Brazil's inequalities in welfare and poverty across and within regions can be accounted for by differences in household …

-term implications for both economic development and vulnerability to future crises. …The benefits of financial development and globalization have come with continuing fragility in financial sectors … that foster deep and persistent poverty, such as lack of connectivity to markets, have provided a degree of protection for …

This paper identifies and estimates the strength of the reduction in poverty linked to improved opportunities for women … in the expanding maquila sector. A simulation exercise shows that, at a given point in time, poverty in Honduras would … have been 1.5 percentage points higher had the maquila sector not existed. Of this increase in poverty, 0.35 percentage …

The "developing world's middle class" is defined here as those who are not poor when judged by the median poverty line …-2002, economic growth and distributional shifts allowed an extra 1.2 billion people to join the developing world's middle class. Four …-fifths came from Asia, and half from China. Most of the new entrants remained fairly close to poverty, with incomes now bunched up …

The majority of economic decisions taken by individuals are forward looking and thus involve their expectations of … economic decisions. The paper discusses the different methods being tried for eliciting such information, the key …