Shock Waves : Managing the Impacts of Climate Change on Poverty
Shock Waves: Managing the Impacts of Climate Change on Poverty Ending poverty and stabilizing climate change will be two unprecedented global achievements and two major steps toward sustainable development. But the two objectives cannot be considered in isolation: they need to be jointly tackled through an integrated strategy. This report brings together those two objectives […]
Poverty in a Rising Africa
Poverty in a Rising Africa Perceptions of Africa have changed dramatically. Viewed as a continent of wars, famines, and entrenched poverty in the late 1990s, there is now a focus on “Africa rising” and an “African 21st century.” Two decades of unprecedented economic growth in Africa should have brought substantial improvements in well-being. Whether or […]
The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2020
The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2020 FAO, IFAD, UNICEF, WFP and WHO (2020) This joint report is issued annually by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the International Fund for Agricultural Development, UNICEF, the World Food Programme, and the World Health Organization. It presents the latest estimates […]
Factors Affecting the Bank Credit Accessibility of Rural Households in Vietnam
Factors Affecting the Bank Credit Accessibility of Rural Households in Vietnam Tran Long Giang, Hoang Thi Thanh Hang, Asian Journal of Economics and Empirical Research (2019) The research identifies and measures factors affecting bank credit accessibility using Heckman (1979). The research uses data from the dataset of Vietnam Household Living Standard Survey in 2014 and 2016 […]
Understanding Growth and Poverty: Theory, Policy, and Empirics
Understanding Growth and Poverty: Theory, Policy, and Empirics Raj Nallari and Breda Griffith, The World Bank (2011) This volume is an introduction to the theories and policies that affect economic growth and poverty. It is a compilation of lecture notes used in face-to-face and e-learning courses presented by the World Bank Institute’s (WBI) Poverty Program […]
Climbing the ladder: poverty reduction and shared prosperity in Vietnam
Climbing the ladder: poverty reduction and shared prosperity in Vietnam Obert Pimhidzai, The World Bank (2018) Vietnam has achieved remarkable success in reducing poverty while controlling inequality. The country’s broad-based growth reflects the government’s focus on developing labor-intensive export sectors while investing heavily in human capital that saw the country exceed its peers (World Bank, […]
Poverty, Inequality, and Evaluation: Changing Perspectives
Poverty, Inequality, and Evaluation: Changing Perspectives Ray C. Rist, Frederic P. Martin, and Ana Maria Fernandez, The World Bank (2016) The basic premise of this book is that the conversation on the future of development needs to shift from a focus on poverty to that of inequality. The poverty emphasis is in an intellectual and […]
Reducing rural poverty in Vietnam: issues, policies, challenges
Reducing rural poverty in Vietnam: issues, policies, challenges Ngo Ha Quyen, Mekong Development Research Institute (2019) Vietnam still has about 9 million poor people living under the poverty line. This remaining group is harder to reach than the group ten or twenty years ago. They rely on agriculture, live in remote mountainous areas with very […]
Living Wage Report Rural Vietnam
Living Wage Report Rural Vietnam Research Center for Employment Relations (2017) This report estimated a living wage for rural areas of Vietnam, focusing on Soc Trang and Thai Binh and the seafood processing industry in Soc Trang, by using the new methodology developed by Anker and Anker (2017). This report has 4 sections. Section I […]
Monitoring Global Poverty : Report of the Commission on Global Poverty
Monitoring Global Poverty: Report of the Commission on Global Poverty Tony Atkinson, The World Bank (2017) In 2013, the World Bank Group announced two goals that would guide its operations worldwide. The first is the eradication of chronic extreme poverty – bringing the number of extremely poor people, defined as those living on less than […]
Child Poverty, Youth (Un)Employment, and Social Inclusion
Child Poverty, Youth (Un)Employment, and Social Inclusion Maria Petmesidou, Enrique Delamónica, Christos Papatheodorou, Aldrie Henry-Lee, CROP International Poverty Studies (2016) Worldwide child and youth poverty remain the biggest barrier to achieving a better life in adulthood. Progress in lifting children out of poverty in the last decades has been slow and limited in the developing […]
Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2016
Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2016 José Cuesta, Mario Negre, The World Bank (2016) Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2016 is the first of an annual flagship report that will inform a global audience comprising development practitioners, policymakers, researchers, advocates, and citizens in general with the latest and most accurate estimates on trends in global poverty and […]
Understanding Changes in Poverty
Understanding Changes in Poverty Inchauste, Gabriela; Azevedo, João Pedro; Essama-Nssah, The World Bank (2014) Understanding Changes in Poverty brings together different methods to decompose the contributions to poverty reduction. A simple approach quantifies the contribution of changes in demographics, employment, earnings, public transfers, and remittances to poverty reduction. A more complex approach quantifies the contributions […]
