We measure multidimensional poverty in India using National Sample Survey Organization data from 2014-15 to 2017-18. We ….75 per cent over the study period. The all-India estimates indicate that 144 million people were lifted from poverty during …, sanitation, and education also have significant weights. The decline in deprivation is steeper in rural areas than urban areas …

of distress among the poor, particularly those with informal occupations, has been widespread, effective policy response … has required real-time, researched data disaggregated for urban and rural populations and for various categories of the … poor. The Power and Partcipation Research Centre and BRAC Institute for Governance and Development's fourround panel survey …

Brazil's recent growth has been intensely pro-poor, and both poverty and inequality have declined significantly in the … last decade. It has been suggested that Brazil's unexpected successes are the outcome of a new model of development. The … worth considering whether there are any lessons from Brazil's development policies for Sub-Saharan African countries. …

time. This paper seeks to examine the relationship not only between gender and urban income poverty but also, more … importantly, between gender and urban asset accumulation, illustrating how the combination of quantitative econometric measurement … a far more comprehensive analysis of asset accumulation processes in urban contexts than can be gained from any single …

Across the world, people in urban rather than rural areas are more likely to support gender equality. To explain this … global trend, this paper engages with geographically diverse literature and comparative rural-urban ethnographic research … against gender-based violence. However, the urban is not inevitably disruptive. Experiences of the urban are shaped by …

selected. Even among particular policy types, there was tremendous heterogeneity in timing, scale, implementation mechanisms … available evidence to compare the specifics of crisis responses. In this regard it differs from other policy response studies … which focus more on policy types and titles, ignoring the details. …

prices and policy interventions. Despite enthusiasm for policy interventions to stimulate biofuel production in Southern … social externalities, and the costs associated with subsidies. This paper reviews the state of the policy, regulation, and …

factors and the economic ideology pertaining during this period, which in turn, drive the policy regimes and economic outcomes …