The paper addresses three issues: (i) the effects of economic reform on the distribution of income in the urban areas of China, (ii) changes in the incidence of urban poverty and (iii) the role of government policy in accentuating urban poverty and inequality. The empirical analysis is based on...

This report contains proposals for a new framework for development cooperation. The Cold War is over and we have an opportunity to replace the ideological competition that dominated international relations for nearly half a century by a new ethos of solidarity and cooperation. The world is no...

The first version of this study was prepared for the United Nations Development Programme as a background document for the Human Development Report 1992. It is not surprising therefore that some of the ideas in this study bear more than a passing likeness to parts of this year's Human...