The End of Poverty
Book Review: The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time Jeffrey D. Sachs (2005) Jeffrey Sachs is known as one of the world’s leading experts on economic development and the fight against poverty. He has been to more than 100 countries to help solve development issues such as poverty reduction, environmental protection, or armed […]
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 […]
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 […]
How to Build a National Multidimensional Poverty Index
How to Build a National Multidimensional Poverty Index Sabina Alkire, Adriana Conconi, Mónica Pinilla-Roncancio, and Ana Vaz, United Nations Development Programme and Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, University of Oxford (2019) This joint handbook by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford, provides practical […]
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 […]
