The document by Waldo Mendoza (research coordinator for COPLA Peru) titled ‘Trade policy and poverty in Peru. How do free trade agreements (FTA) impact rural poverty?’ presents clearly the existent evidence that links international trade with growth and with poverty as the other side of the same story. The document published by CIES and available in the resources area of COPLA Peru in http://www.cop-la.net/en/node/357 analyses theories on the matter and then focuses on the implementation of the FTA signed with the United States.

This is the latest Briefing Paper from ODI for COPLA. It argues that: Changes in employment, prices and social expenditures are three pathways linking trade and gender; Trade liberalisation may have positive or negative impacts, but there are risks for women; Trade reforms must be complemented by social and labour policies to ensure that women can take full advantage of the new economic environment

This book takes a multidisciplinary approach to poverty, including five different perspectives from the disciplines of economics, sociology, anthropology, psychology and institutional economics.

The paper focuses on two kinds of policy intervention – preventative and curative. A preventative intervention tries to counteract the processes that generate a problem; a curative intervention tries to deal with their consequences. In the case of poverty, for instance, a curative intervention will find out where the poor are and try to alleviate their situation; a preventative intervention will analyze the causes of poverty and devise strategies to prevent it.

This paper focuses on the relationship of trade with gender and poverty within the context of the human development paradigm.

This paper looks at the effects of trade liberalization in Latin America in the late eighties and early nineties and concludes that the increase in wage inequality was due to: (1) relative factor endo

[From Abstrat] On June 19, 2006, policy experts met at a conference on “Trade and Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean”, convened by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and supported b