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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

reducing poverty and stimulating growth. Going beyond the large literature documenting the impact of female education on a … credit) and women's decision-making power within households on poverty reduction and productivity at the individual and … household level. The paper also summarizes evidence from studies examining the relationship between gender equality and poverty …

remarkable increase in per capita income and a decline in the poverty rate from 64 percent at the beginning of reform to 10 …

This paper contributes to explain the cross-country heterogeneity of the poverty response to changes in economic growth …' wages and, thus, poverty alleviation. Then it presents cross-country empirical evidence that analyzes first, the … differential poverty-reducing impact of sectoral growth at various levels of disaggregation, and the role of unskilled labor …

Poverty reduction has become a fundamental objective of development, and therefore a metric for assessing the … effectiveness of various interventions. Economic growth can be a powerful instrument of income poverty reduction. This creates a … need for meaningful ways of assessing the poverty impact of growth. This paper follows the elasticity approach to propose a …