This paper combines results from a newly available international, cross-section consumption analysis, with earnings data from household surveys from Brazil and Chile, to analyze the implications of multilateral trade liberalization for impoverished households in these two countries. Emphasis...

La Revista Integración & Comercio del BID incluye artículos referidos a las distintas manifestaciones del proceso de integración en América Latina y el Caribe, a la integración hemisférica y, también, a los procesos con igual orientación que se llevan a cabo en otras partes del mundo....

This paper proposes a new method for ex ante analysis of the poverty impacts arising from policy reforms. Three innovations underlie this approach. The first is the estimation of a global demand system using a combination of micro-data from household surveys and macro-data from the International...