Poverty and Inequality in Mexico after NAFTA: Challenges, Setbacks and Implications

Poverty in Emerging Asia : Progress , Setbacks , and Log - jams

The financial crisis of 1997-1998 in East and Southeast Asia has raised questions about the sustainability of some hitherto admired modes of poverty reduction. But this paper argues that there remain important lessons to learn from Asia’s great ascent out of poverty since the Second World War. It remains important that well before the setback struck, much of this area had eliminated food povert...

Poverty and Gender Inequality

Introduction [Poverty and Inequality]

Poverty, Inequality and Conflict

While there is a general view that poverty and inequality can lead to conflict and are therefore in this sense security issues, the precise nature of the links is less well appreciated. Focusing on conflicts within states, this paper draws out the links based on the recent economics literature, and discusses their implications for policy. It is argued that while inequality is a natural concomit...

Trade , Poverty and Inequality