Development Plan (PDP). The PDP details the vision of inclusive growth and poverty reduction that underlies the social contract …

capture different aspects of people's opportunity sets, for which observed income may be a poor proxy. One implication is that … the cross-country literature on income inequality and growth may have been barking up the wrong tree, and that alternative …

its connected poverty trends. The main focus of the authors is understanding, for the case of Brazil, how a trade shock … interacts with these structural forces and ascertaining whether it enhances or hinders medium-term poverty reduction. In … particular, they consider the interactions between the migration of labor out of agriculture, a potentially important poverty …

countries is the receipt of remittances or transfers from income earned by overseas emigrants. Official data show that …

living in absolute poverty, who have benefitted too little from past progress. This report examines some of the difficulties … describes the role of human development programs (in education, health, nutrition, and fertility reduction) and their related …