It has been argued that the potential gains of community-driven development (CDD) poverty programs are large as these … can foster sustained poverty reduction. However, recent literature shows that community involvement can increase the risk … programs. Using community and household data from the Second Urban Poverty Project in Indonesia, we find robust evidence for …

implications for our understanding of inequality, poverty, inclusivity of growth and development, world economic welfare, and the … poverty has declined greatly but by others it has hardly declined at all, even over the fifty years. The global middle class …

. At the village level, a land market does not influence the poverty outcome of the reform but reduces its inequality …

findings have important implications on the future development strategy in promoting lagging regions development and poverty … reduction. While the overall economic development will be the main instrument to bring the majority poor out of poverty, a …