Laura Camfield, Kaneta Choudhury, Joe Devine
Timothy Besley, Louise J. Cord
Delivering on the Promise of Pro-Poor \n Growth contributes to the debate on how to accelerate \n poverty reduction by providing insights from eight countries \n that have been relatively successful in delivering pro-poor \n growth: Bangladesh, Brazil, Ghana, India, Indonesia, \n...
Geof Wood
Wei Wei, Tanwne Sarker, Wioletta Żukiewicz-Sobczak, Rana Roy et al.
Women's empowerment has a great influence on health, nutrition, education, and the overall well-being of societies as well as of the children and households. This study investigates the effect of women's empowerment on poverty reduction and focuses on household deprivation, in terms of education, he...
Branko Milanović
Inequality in world income is very high, according to household surveys, more because of differences between mean country incomes than because of inequality within countries. World inequality increased between 1988 and 1993, driven by slower growth in rural per capita incomes in populous Asian count...
Jon Jachimowicz, Salah Chafik, Sabeth Munrat, Jaideep Prabhu et al.
) are not forced to take the immediate reward out of financial need. Low-income individuals may be both less likely to believe future payoffs will occur and less able to forego immediate rewards due to higher financial need; they may thus appear to discount the future more heavily. We propose that t...
Vicente Navarro
Presented here is a critical analysis of some of the major theses of Amartya Sen, as presented in his seminal work Development As Freedom. The author suggests that Sen's work, while representing a major break with the dominant neoliberal position reproduced in most national and international develop...
Peter Davis, Bob Baulch
This paper explores the implications of using two methodological approaches to study poverty dynamics in rural Bangladesh. Using data from a unique longitudinal study, we show how different methods lead to very different assessments of socio-economic mobility. We suggest five ways of reconciling the...
Adrian Leftwich
Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. Atul Kohli, ‘State, society and development’, in: Ira Katnelson & Helen V. Milner (eds), Political Science: The State of the Discipline (W. W. Norton & Co., 2002), p. 117. 2. Dani Rodrik, ‘Growth strategies’, in: Philippe Aghion & Ste...
Rajiv Chowdhury, Abbas Bhuiya
Abstract Over the decades of the 1980s and 90s many poverty alleviation programmes have been implemented in developing countries. Evaluations of such programmes have traditionally looked at their success in increasing the income levels of participants but less at the wider goals of human well‐being....
Tim Besley, Louise J. Cord
Delivering on the Promise of Pro-Poor Growth contributes to the debate on how to accelerate poverty reduction by providing insights from eight countries that have been relatively successful in delivering pro-poor growth: Bangladesh, Brazil, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Tunisia, Uganda, and Vietnam. It i...
Juan Luis Londoño
No AccessStand Alone Books1 Feb 2013Poverty, inequality, and human capital development in Latin America, 1950-2025Authors/Editors: Juan Luis Londono, World BankJuan Luis Londono, World Bankhttps://doi.org/10.1596/0-8213-3630-4SectionsAboutPDF (1 MB) ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citat...
Agnes Quisumbing, Lawrence James Haddad, Christine Lao Peña, Quisumbing, Agnes R. et al.
This paper presents new evidence on the association between gender and poverty based on an empirical analysis of 11 data sets from 10 developing countries. The paper computes income- and expenditure-based poverty measures and investigates their sensitivity to the use of per capita and per adult equi...
Naomi Hossain, Mick Moore
Summaries The Bangladeshi national elite are distanced from and unthreatened by poverty and the poor. Medium-term solutions to poverty, resting on a belief in the importance of ‘increasing awareness’ through education, rather than in direct public action, are favoured. The poor are viewed as homogen...