Relatively slow progress toward meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by their 2015 target date has added urgency to the challenge of reducing global poverty. The authors of this new book--who include scholars from the IMF, World Bank, Oxford University, and the Center for Global...

Poverty maps are a useful tool for the targeting of social programs on areas with high concentrations of poverty. However, a static focus on poverty ignores the temporal dimension of poverty. Thus, current nonpoor households still face substantial welfare volatility and are at risk of becoming...

Purpose: This study examines how foreign aid affects gender inequality in developing countries, both at macro (overall) and micro (sectoral) levels. Design/methodology/approach: This study uses comprehensive panel data between 2010 and 2019. Findings: The major findings are: (1) foreign aid,...