This pamphlet excerpts a chapter on macroeconomic policy from the Poverty Reduction Policy Source book, a guide … prepared by the World Bank and IMF to assist countries in developing and strengthening their poverty reduction strategies. It … probes the relationship between macroeconomic policy matters, such as growth and inflation, and the fight against poverty …

The second edition of this book outline show to include the poor using the Participatory Poverty Assessment (PPA …

contribute the most to reducing poverty? This paper examines these questions in four stages. First, it explores the factors …

The econometric literature has been unable to establish a robust association between foreign aid and growth and poverty … countries. The model quantifies three sources of poverty: (i) lack of access to international capital, (ii) low schooling and … high fertility (a poverty trap), and (iii) antigrowth domestic fiscal policy. We analyze policies designed to address each …

We analyze the performance of kernel density methods applied to grouped data to estimate poverty (as applied in Sala …-i-Martin, 2006, QJE). Using Monte Carlo simulations and household surveys, we find that the technique gives rise to biases in poverty … estimates, the sign and magnitude of which vary with the bandwidth, the kernel, the number of datapoints, and across poverty …

impacts of the growth process. Cognizant of the vulnerability of its large population below poverty, India''s authorities have …

This paper demonstrates that high and rising corruption increases income inequality and poverty by reducing economic … corruption. An important implication of these results is that policies that reduce corruption will also lower income inequality … and poverty …

Current estimates of global poverty vary substantially across studies. In this paper we undertake a novel sensitivity … analysis to highlight the importance of methodological choices in estimating global poverty. We measure global poverty using … different data sources, parametric and nonparametric estimation methods, and multiple poverty lines. Our results indicate that …