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 …

social capital measures to assess the impact of a pilot program that was randomly rolled out in rural villages in Cambodia …

social capital measures to assess the impact of a pilot program that was randomly rolled out in rural villages in Cambodia …

This paper evaluates a primary school scholarship program in Cambodia with two different targeting mechanisms, one … based on poverty level and the other on baseline test scores ( "merit" ). Both targeting mechanisms increased enrollment and …

Cambodia's growth over 1998-2008 has been remarkable (almost 10 percent per annum for a decade). This paper applies a …

economic growth was widely shared by the population and as a result poverty (measured by the national poverty line) declined … growth was shared among the less well off. This work presents a diagnostic of shared prosperity and poverty reduction in … Tajikistan during 2003-2009. The paper also focuses on quantifying the main drivers of poverty reduction, shared prosperity, and …

reduce poverty. This paper describes the main mechanisms through which demographic change may affect economic outcomes, and … estimates the association between changes in the share of working-age population with per capita growth, savings, and poverty … poverty reduction …

strong adverse impacts on gross domestic product per capita, income, and poverty reduction. This study provides a regional … percent, which in turn increases moderate and extreme poverty by 1.5 percentage points. These results demonstrate the causal … relationship between hurricane windstorm impacts and poverty in Central America, producing regional evidence that could improve …

trends scenario. Finally, rebalancing reduces the prevalence of poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa compared with the isolated … negative effects of China's slowdown, which slightly increase the incidence of poverty. Overall, China's slowdown and … poverty, but the extent of this varies by country …

Longstanding development issues are revisited in the light of a newly-constructed data set of poverty measures for … poverty measures since 1970, with an acceleration post-1991, despite rising inequality. Faster poverty decline came with … has ceased to matter, as all three sectors contributed to poverty reduction …