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  • The impact of easing the US travel restrictions against Cuba on tourism in the OECS (English)

    The US authorities announced in December 2014 an intention to normalize relations with Cuba, including measures to ease economic sanctions and the ban on US citizens’ travel to Cuba. The impact of the...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 97687 Document Date: June 1, 2015 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Djiofack,Calvin Zebaze,Odawara,Rei,Ivanic,Maros,Lohi,Julie Saty

  • The economic impact of the Syrian war and the spread of ISIS (English)

    The Syrian war and the subsequent emergence and spread of the Islamic State (ISIS) have transformed the Levant in ways one could not have imagined prior to 2011. As the numbers of dead and of refugees...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 93881 Document Date: January 1, 2015 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ianchovichina,Elena,Ivanic,Maros

  • Poverty impacts of the volume-based special safeguard mechanism (English)

    The volume-based Special Safeguard Mechanism was proposed as essential for small, poor farmers and became the proximate cause of the collapse of the Doha Agenda negotiations in 2008. But is it helpful...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS7006 Document Date: August 1, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ivanic,Maros,Martin, Will

  • Short- and long-run impacts of food price changes on poverty (English)

    This study uses household models based on detailed expenditure and agricultural production data from 31 developing countries to assess the impacts of changes in global food prices on poverty in individual...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS7011 Document Date: August 1, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ivanic,Maros,Martin, Will

  • Food price spikes, price insulation, and poverty (English)

    This paper has two purposes. It first considers the impact on world food prices of the changes in restrictions on trade in staple foods during the 2008 world food price crisis. Those changes -- reductions...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS6535 Document Date: July 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Anderson,Kym,Ivanic,Maros,Martin, Will

  • Promoting youth opportunities and participation in Morocco (English)

    This quick note is based on the report of the same name which was prepared just prior to the Arab Spring. The study anticipates the demands for social and economic inclusion articulated by Moroccan young...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 73001 Document Date: June 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: La Cava,Gloria,Ivanic,Maros,Jillson,Irene Anne,Morgandi,Matteo,Serajuddin,Umar,Vishwanath,Tara

  • Estimating the short-run poverty impacts of the 2010-11 surge in food prices (English)

    Global food prices have increased substantially since mid-2010, as have prices in many developing countries. In this study we assess the poverty impact of the price changes between June and December 2010...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS5633 Document Date: April 1, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ivanic,Maros,Martin,William J.,Zaman,Hassan

  • Implications of the growth of China and India for the other Asian giant : Russia (English)

    Continuing rapid growth of China and India can be expected to raise incomes in Russia, but also to put adjustment pressure on Russian firms. The impacts of the rapid growth of China and India on the Russian...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS5075 Document Date: October 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ianchovichina,Elena,Ivanic,Maros,Martin,William J.

  • Implications of higher global food prices for poverty in low-income countries (English)

    In many poor countries, the recent increases in prices of staple foods raise the real incomes of those selling food, many of whom are relatively poor, while hurting net food consumers, many of whom are...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS4594 Document Date: April 1, 2008 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ivanic,Maros,Martin, Will

  • Distributional effects of WTO agricultural reforms in rich and poor countries (English)

    Rich countries' agricultural trade policies are the battleground on which the future of the WTO's troubled Doha Round will be determined. Subject to widespread criticism, they nonetheless appear to be...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS4060 Document Date: November 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Hertel,Thomas W.,Ivanic,Maros,Keeney,Roman Michael,Winters,L. Alan

  • The earnings effects of multilateral trade liberalization : implications for poverty (English)

    Most researchers examining poverty and multilateral trade liberalization have had to examine average, or per capita effects, suggesting that if per capita real income rises, poverty will fall. This inference...

    Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: 77471 Document Date: May 1, 2004 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Hertel,Thomas W.,Ivanic,Maros,Preckel,Paul V.,Cranfield,John Andrea Lionel

  • The World Bank economic review 18 (2) (English)

    Do macroeconomics crises always slow human capital accumulations? By Nobert R. Schady. The distribution of income shocks during crises: an application of quantile analysis to Mexico, 1992-95, by William...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 30182 Document Date: January 1, 2004 Disclosure Status: Author: Blunch,Niels-Hugo,Bosch Mossi,Mariano,Cranfield,John Andrea Lionel,Cunningham, Wendy V.,Hertel,Thomas W.,Hoekman,Bernard M.,Ivanic,Maros,Kaufman, Daniel,Kraay,Aart C.,Maloney,William F.,Mastruzzi,Massimo,Ng,Francis K. T.,Olarreaga,Marcelo,Preckel,Paul V.,Schady, Nobert R.,Verner,Dorte