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.