approach builds on some of the poverty-focused "hybrid" methods found in recent rural road appraisals, recognizing that an …

"The paper presents a major overhaul to the World Bank's past estimates of global poverty, incorporating new and better … data. Extreme poverty-as judged by what "poverty" means in the world's poorest countries-is found to be more pervasive than … we thought. Yet the data also provide robust evidence of continually declining poverty incidence and depth since the …

"Does child labor decrease as household income rises? This question has important implications for the design of policy … a small increase in household income on child labor should be concentrated among children most vulnerable to … and in groups most likely to leave school and start work. Additional income is associated with a decline in paid work that …

reduce future levels of poverty by encouraging investments in education, health, and nutrition. The success of CCT programs …"Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs aim to alleviate poverty through monetary and in-kind benefits, as well as … at reducing poverty depends on whether, and the extent to which, cash transfers affect adult work incentives. The authors …

"This study looks at the experience of integrated urban upgrading in a low-income neighborhood of Salvador, Bahia …