"The benefits of financial development and globalization have come with continuing fragility in financial sectors. Periodic crises have had real but heterogeneous welfare impacts and not just for poor people; indeed, some of the conditions that foster deep and persistent poverty, such as lack of...

"Paci, Sasin, and Verbeek attempt to analyze the linkages between macroeconomic policies and economic growth variables, their movement over time, and their impact on poverty in the case of Poland. Poland, a middle-income country, is of particular interest because its data sources allow for a...

Introduction and overview Jean A.P. Clément -- Sustaining growth takeoffs : lessons from Mozambique Jean A.P. Clément and Shanaka J. Peiris -- Halving the poverty rate by 2015 Louise Fox, Rui Benfica, and Melissa Sekkel -- Sustaining growth in the long term Sam Jones -- Monetary and financial...

Introduction -- Review of macro-micro approaches for evaluating the distributional impacts of macroeconomic reforms [Moataz El-Said] -- Distributional impacts of indirect tax and public pricing reforms: a review of methods and empirical evidence [David Coady] -- Analyzing the impact of trade...