Preface -- Introduction -- Equity, inequality traps and institutions: a cross-disciplinary view / Anthony Bebbington, Anis Dani, Arjan de Haan and Michael Walton -- Inequality traps and institutionalized inequities -- Asset inequality and agricultural growth: how are patterns of asset inequality...

This note describes the methodology used for estimating trends in poverty rates for Iraq using the 2012 Iraq household socio-economic survey and the 2014 continuous household survey; and presents the finding. The 2014 survey was designed to provide comparable and more frequent estimates of...

This report presents to the Government of Georgia (GoG) an analysis of the implications of potential policy changes to internally displaced person (IDP) assistance. A pressing question for policy makers in Georgia is the sustainability of status-based IDP assistance and what efforts can be made...

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This report summarizes the results of the PSIA and explains the three analyses used to determine the impact of the tax reform. The first analysis integrates data from administrative tax records with household statistics from the Gran Encuesta Integrada de Hogares (GEIH) conducted by the...

Somalia is emerging from 25 years of political instability and economic difficulty but hard data islacking for evidence-based planning. The civil war and ongoing conflict that started in 1991 fragmented the country, undermined political institutions, and created widespread vulnerability. The...