Poverty analysis
- National well-being accounts
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The New Economics Foundation has released a report which presents a working model of National Accounts of Well-being. The aim is to redesign national records to better measure people’s well-being. Today there is a need to take into account poverty, crises and environmental well-being.
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- Flawed data means the incidence of poverty in Greater Cairo is being severely under-estimated
- ( S. Sabry / International Institute for Environment and Development , 2009)
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The way in which poverty is defined and measured influences who is considered to be poor, how the state responds and how successful the state responses are judged to be. As this paper aims to demon...
- Tools for evaluating NGO impact in the area of savings and credit
- ( NGO Impact on Development, Empowerment and Actions , 2007)
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The NGO-IDEAS impact tool box was developed to support NGOs working in the area of savings and credit, in the context of South India. The approach is based on some principles that can applied ...
- Higher priority needed for research to address health inequities
- ( J. Beckfield;N. Krieger / Oxford Journals , 2009)
- There is a new focus within both social epidemiology and political sociology to investigate how political systems and priorities shape health inequities. This paper, published in Epidemiologic Reviews...
- Challenging how donors evaluate development success
- ( S. Patel;S. Bartlett / Development in Practice , 2009)
- This article challenges the terms on which donor agencies evaluate development success, drawing on a particular case to make its point. It describes the resettlement of 60,000 people squatting along t...
- Different strategies types of the poor: understanding dynamic aspirations
- ( A. Dorward;S. Anderson;Y. N. Bernal / Development in Practice , 2009)
- In recent years understanding of poverty and of ways in which people escape from or fall into poverty has become more holistic. This should improve the capabilities of policy analysts and others worki...
- Are the wealth rankings of countries being incorrectly measured?
- ( I Almås;M. Mogstad / Luxembourg Income Study , 2009)
- Differences in individual wealth holdings are widely viewed as a driving force of economic inequality. However, as this finding relies on cross-section data, the authors of this paper argue that we ma...
- How are we doing? The people of Botswana rate their development record
- ( M. Lekorwe / Afrobarometer , 2009)
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Botswana is widely regarded as a development success story. Its economy is well managed, and Transparency International considers it to be the least corrupt country in Africa. But do the peopl...
- Poverty and migration in Syria: the effects of food and agricultural policies
- ( Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations , 2009)
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With increasing evidence that poor people depend on a variety of sources of income, activities and transfers, policy makers recognise the need to dissagregate policy analysis to the extent possible...
- Azerbaijan's MDG record
- ( United Nations Development Group , 2005)
- Azerbaijan launched the ”State Programme on Poverty Reduction and Economic Development” (SPPRED) in 2003 in order to reduce poverty and improve living standards of its citizens. The SPPRED...
Understanding poverty by consulting with the poor: the World Bank's Moving Out of Poverty study
- ( World Bank , 2009)
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Poverty reduction rates vary significantly between and within developing countries, indicating that local contexts influence the lives of the poor. Increasingly, it is recognised that in ...
