A Participatory Poverty Assessment (PPA) was undertaken by the World Bank in collaboration with the Government of Kenya … to complement previous statistical studies of poverty in Kenya. While the PPA confirmed many findings of the Welfare … Monitoring Survey (WMS), it also revealed significant new data concerning poverty, female-headed households, access by the poor …

The Bank ' s approach to country poverty assessments (PAs) is increasingly stressing the involvement of stakeholder … other institutional stakeholders in all aspects of the work increases sensitivity to poverty issues, enhances analytical … skills, and builds allegiance to the measures proposed for poverty reduction. In addition, conventional statistical analysis …

in-depth studies in Ethiopia and Ghana to advance understanding of the dynamics underlying negative spirals of poverty …Gender-poverty-environment links: a focus on the links between gender disparity, poverty and environmental degradation … which relationships between the environment, society and the economy are gendered opens space for new approaches to poverty …

potential in alleviating poverty and promoting social accountability, and what types of laws, regulations, governance and …

Vietnam made remarkable progress in poverty reduction in the 1990s. Poverty rates decreased from 58% to 37% between … 1993 and 1998. The reduction in poverty rates among indigenous people (who constitute 13% of the population and mostly live … in remote areas) has been less remarkable. During the same period, the poverty incidence has gone down from 84% to 75 …