The 2015 Millennium Development Goal to cut in half the share of the world's population living in extreme poverty was … met with time to spare. By 2013, the percentage of developing-country populations living in extreme poverty decreased from … to poverty reduction. What was the main contributor to poverty reduction? Using a simple accounting approach, we find …

This book presents the key findings from a new poverty assessment for Vietnam, led jointly by the World Bank and the … the constraints and opportunities they face today in rising out of poverty. The book aims to do three things. First, it … proposes revisions to Vietnam's poverty monitoring system-via better data, updated welfare aggregates, and new poverty lines …

Global poverty, economist Collier points out, is actually falling quite rapidly for about 80% of the world. The real … alleviating poverty. Here, Collier contends that these fifty failed states pose the central challenge of the developing world in …

Every day, we are barraged by statistics, images, and emotional messages that present poverty as a problem to be … the problem of poverty. Governing the Poor exposes the ways in which such generalized descriptions and quantifications …Cover -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Towards a Genealogy of Poverty Reduction: From …

Inequality: A Review of the Empirical Evidence -- The Measurement of Poverty -- Does Economic Growth Reduce Absolute Poverty? A …

How can the world's nearly 3 billion who live on 2 a day or less be lifted out of poverty? Paul Polak (bestselling … author of Out of Poverty) and the organizations he has founded have pioneered methods that have already helped nearly 20 … million of the world's poorest people to get out of poverty without charitable or government handouts. Now Polak teams with …

Is poverty inevitable? No, says author Paul Godfrey. More than Money shows how organizations can win the fight against … poverty and create prosperity for people at the base of the pyramid in the developing and developed world.This book presents a …

For two decades, Africa's strong economic growth has paved the way for poverty reduction. Nevertheless, high chronic … poverty levels persist, and the gap between income groups in terms of human capital and access to basic services is growing … helping them invest in productive activities, targeted interventions such as safety nets help reduce persistent poverty …

for poverty alleviation. Although there are likely to be substantial efficiency gains from tariff reductions, these accrue …