Looking beyond growth
Recommended reading
- Poverty in focus: analysing and achieving pro-poor growth
- ( D. Ehrenpreis / International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth , 2007)
- Poverty reduction depends not only on economic growth, but on strategies that ensure that the poor participate in growth and share in its proceeds. This series of articles summarises recent research i...
- The right of registration: Development, identity registration and social security
- ( S. Szreter / History and Policy , 2007)
- What can developing countries learn from England’s development path? This article examines the role of The Poor Laws (1540 to 1780) in setting the foundation for Britain’s growth from a sm...
- Closing the gap in a generation
- ( World Health Organization , 2008)
- Social determinants of health are the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age. These are shaped by the distribution of money, power and resources at global, national and local le...
- A Poverty-Inequality trade-off?
- ( M. Ravallion / World Bank Publications , 2005)
- When inequality rises, does poverty also rise? This paper examines this question using both absolute and relative measures of inequality. Relative inequality is based on ratios - the higher the ratio...
- Making sense of the MDGs
- ( J. Vandemoortele / Centre for the Millennium Development Goals , 2008)
- Several misunderstandings have arisen about the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This article aims to clarify these. Three key misconceptions include: ...
