Abhatoo - Centre Nationale de Documentation

Poverty impacts of public policies as well as public policies designed to alleviate poverty in developing countries are increasingly drawing both domestic and international attention. This paper provides a review of some of the contemporary developments in the CGE-related literature on poverty. A specific focus in the paper is with respect to the status of poverty-related CGE work on Arab countries. Drawing on the literature and the particular situation in Arab countries, the paper provides a general framework to guide country studies aiming at assessing public policy impacts on poverty in the Arab region.