This paper estimates the effect of enrollment in a large scale anti-poverty program in Colombia, Familias en Accion, on … participation in the 2010 presidential elections by increasing the probability that program beneficiaries registered to vote and … political and legislative mechanisms, as the laws recently passed by the Colombian government, that avoid successful anti-poverty …

In 2013, the World Bank adopted two goals: First, reduce global extreme poverty to 3 percent by 2030. Second, promote … simulates the global poverty headcount under three growth scenarios for the bottom 40 percent up to 2030. The analysis deploys a … percentage points faster than the mean, the World Bank's poverty goal is achieved with the global poverty falling to below 3 …

that the cross-country allocations of aggregate trust fund aid are poverty- and policy-selective. In this respect, they are … and education aid are poverty selective and positively correlated with the World Bank's assessment of the quality of … countries'sector policies, while environmental trust funds are neither poverty selective nor correlated with the assessed …

countries to find the mix of economic and social aid that jointly promotes the participation of the poor in the development …

This paper re-examines the roles of changes in income and inequality in poverty reduction. The study provides estimates … of the relative effects of inequality reduction versus growth promotion in reducing poverty for countries with different … levels of initial poverty. The analysis uses country panel-data for 1980-2010. The results indicate that, as countries become …

The World Bank Group recently adopted two overarching goals -- the end of extreme, chronic poverty in the world by 2030 … closely related to the age-old debate on growth versus direct welfare interventions as instruments for countering poverty. The … paper analyzes past trends on poverty and tries to shed new light on this old debate …

middle (the rural nonfarm economy and secondary towns) yields more inclusive growth patterns and faster poverty reduction … for faster poverty reduction …

Against what standards should we judge the developing world's overall performance against poverty going forward? The …. The first measure is absolute consumption poverty, as judged by what "poverty" means in the poorest countries. The second … is a new measure of global poverty combining absolute poverty with country-specific social inclusion needs, consistently …