While much progress has been made over the last 25 years in measuring global poverty, there are a number of challenges …

This paper provides an overview of the history of development research at the World Bank and points to new future …. Second, development thinking is in a state of flux and uncertainty; it is time to reconsider both the Bank’s research … grounded in the key knowledge gaps for development policy emerging from the experiences of developing countries, including the …

, and Poverty and Human Resources, Development Research Group - is part of a larger effort in the Bank to inform policy … macroeconomic shocks in the 1980s and 1990s. The impact of the shocks on welfare depended on the nature of the shock, on initial … protected, especially investments in health care, education, rural infrastructure, urban sanitation, and microfinance. ° Efforts …

the 1980s and 1990s. The impact of the shocks on welfare depended on the nature of the shock, on initial household and … investments in health care, education, rural infrastructure, urban sanitation, and microfinance.Efforts should be made to preserve ….This paper - a joint product of the Poverty Group, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network, and Poverty and Human …

We are not seeing faster progress against poverty amongst the poorest developing countries. Yet this is implied by … widely accepted "stylized facts" about the development process. The paper tries to explain what is missing from those … for 100 developing countries reveals an adverse effect on consumption growth of high initial poverty incidence at a given …