to poorest. When poverty is defined using per-capita expenditure and the common PPP$2 per day threshold, we find that … poverty: the results of community-based methods are more correlated with how individual community members rank each other and …

A new wave of social service programs aims to build a pathway out of poverty by helping clients define their own goals … percentage points higher employment rates after one year compared with a control group offered only help with an immediate need … services affect areas beyond employment, even when other areas of life are participants' primary goals. We find some evidence …

The extent to which growth reduces global poverty has been disputed for 30 years. Although there is better data than … used to measure poverty, grows less rapidly than consumption measured in national accounts, in the world as a whole, and in … large countries, particularly India, China, and the US. In consequence, measured poverty has fallen less rapidly than …

Longstanding development issues are revisited in the light of our newly-constructed dataset of poverty measures for … India spanning 60 years, including 20 years since reforms began in earnest in 1991. We find a downward trend in poverty … measures since 1970, with an acceleration post-1991, despite rising inequality. Faster poverty decline came with both higher …

issues empirically by conducting a 400-village field experiment within Indonesia's Conditional Cash Transfer program …

Indonesia, using both a high-stakes field experiment that varied the extent of elite influence and non-experimental data on a …

We use unique data from 600 Indonesian communities on what individuals know about the poverty status of others to study …

Many developing countries would like to increase the share of modern or formal sectors in their employment. One way to …, previous research on the issue has been limited by the paucity of long data sets for firm operations. We examine employment … growth in Indonesia in a large panel of plants between 1975 and 2005, and especially in plants taken over by foreign owners …

available to all low and middle-income families regardless of earnings or income. We estimate the anti-poverty, targeting, and … of the CTC would reduce child poverty by 34% and deep child poverty by 39%. The expansion of the CTC would have a larger … anti-poverty effect on children than any existing government program, though at a higher cost per child raised above the …

The recent financial crisis in Indonesia has resulted in dramatic price increases. Using very recent data, we …