The joint UNRISD-UNESCO series of Occasional Papers on Culture and Development is a first step in facilitating and catalyzing an international debate on culture and development based on high-quality research. The present paper by Keith Griffin is the third in the series. In it, the author shows...

We begin by considering alternative notions of poverty. We then discuss ways of measuring 'income poverty'. Next, we present international comparisons of poverty and the relationship of the incidence of poverty to inequality in the distribution of income and assets. The 'basic needs' approach...

The fact that most poor people in Latin America live in urban areas had implied that poverty in the region is regarded as largely an urban phenomenon. However, this document exposes what available data suggest: that rural poverty still is significant in many Latin American countries.Abstract: El...

This report contains proposals for a new framework for development cooperation. The Cold War is over and we have an opportunity to replace the ideological competition that dominated international relations for nearly half a century by a new ethos of solidarity and cooperation. The world is no...

The first version of this study was prepared for the United Nations Development Programme as a background document for the Human Development Report 1992. It is not surprising therefore that some of the ideas in this study bear more than a passing likeness to parts of this year's Human...

Paper prepared for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Human Development Report 1992. The purposes of this short monograph are, first, to introduce the general reader to the basic concepts of human development, seen as an all-embracing strategy of development, and, second, to devise...

This working paper is the fruit of a symposium on Democratizing Global Economic Governance held at the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) on October 20, 2000, an event co-sponsored by the Five-College Peace and World Security Studies program. The speakers were asked not only to critique...

In this essay the mainstream story about how resources are allocated in a market economy is challenged. The conventional view is that a change in relative prices leads to a change in the composition of output as a result of a reallocation of the stock of primary factors of production (land,...