The authors provide new evidence on the extent to which absolute poverty has urbanized in the developing world, and the … role that population urbanization has played in overall poverty reduction. They find that one-quarter of the world … helped reduce absolute poverty in the aggregate but did little for urban poverty. Over 1993-2002, the count of the "$1 a day …

Following the 1996 Peace Accords, Guatemala embarked on a major program of infrastructure reform involving the …

Guatemala), and international remittances (from the United States) on poverty in Guatemala. With only one exception, he finds … that both internal and international remittances reduce the level, depth, and severity of poverty in Guatemala. However, he … finds that remittances have a greater impact on reducing the severity as opposed to the level of poverty in Guatemala. For …

While self-assessments of welfare have become popular for measuring poverty and estimating welfare effects, the methods … uses specially-designed surveys in three countries, Tajikistan, Guatemala, and Tanzania, to study scale heterogeneity … considerable doubt on the meaning of widely-used summary measures such as subjective poverty rates. Nonetheless, under the …

This paper provides evidence from eight developing countries of an inverse relationship between poverty and city size …. Poverty is both more widespread and deeper in very small and small towns than in large or very large cities. This basic … pattern is generally robust to choice of poverty line. The paper shows, further, that for all eight countries, a majority of …

This paper analyzes poverty in Haiti based on the first Living Conditions Survey of 7,186 households covering the whole … country and representative at the regional level. Using a USD1 a day extreme poverty line, the analysis reveals that 49 … percent of Haitian households live in absolute poverty. Twenty, 56, and 58 percent of households in metropolitan, urban, and …

The central governments of many developing countries have chosen to decentralize their anti-poverty programs, in the …-based poverty program in the world, namely China's Di Bao program, which aims to assure a minimum income through means …

The objective of this study is to contribute to a better understanding of the extent and nature of poverty in urban … disparities within urban areas between capital cities and secondary cities, and focusing on dimensions of poverty related to … cities, with households in secondary cities being worse off. In addition, secondary cities often had poverty indicators …

In recent years an extensive body of literature has emerged on the definition, measurement and analysis of poverty …. Much of this literature focuses on analyzing poverty at the national level, or spatial disaggregation by general categories … tackle the problems of urban poverty, this level of aggregation is not sufficient for answering specific questions such as …