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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- Poverty reduction is uneven across the Asian region
- G. Wan;I. Sebastian / Asian Development Bank , 2011
- Despite continued poverty reduction in the region, Asia and the Pacific remains home to the majority of the world’s poor. In 2008, around 63% of the poor worldwide lived in the region....
- Poverty estimates in South Africa
- C. Meth / School of Development Studies, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, 2010
- In an attempt to fill in some of the gaps in knowledge about poverty and inequality trends in South Africa, Professor V.D. Berg and his colleagues have published a stream of papers on the topic. This ...
- How to assess wellbeing
- Wellbeing and Poverty Pathways, University of Bath, 2011
- Wellbeing is experienced when people have what they need for life to be good. This briefing introduces the model of wellbeing assessment being developed and applied by Wellbeing and Poverty Pathways i...
- Improving the efficiency of targeting poor in Uganda by allowing potential beneficiaries to appeal
- N. Houssou;M. Zeller;J. Johannsen / AgEcon Search, 2010
- Households whose incomes are below the poverty line are considered eligible for targeted benefits. The current paper seeks to find out how best to target the poor, using household survey data from ...
- Inequality in South Africa lower than previously thought
- A. Bosch;J. Rossouw;T. Claassens;B. du Plessis / School of Development Studies, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, 2010
- The distribution of income and wealth in South Africa is core to political debate in the country. At the heart of the debate is the Gini coefficient, which is the international standard for measuri...
- MDG progress and methodology
- S. Fukuda-Parr;J. Greenstein / International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2010
- This paper questions the methodology that is widely used to assess progress in implementing the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a methodology that asks whether the targets are likely to be met...
- Millennium Development Goal of reducing poverty by 50% will be achieved on time in Africa
- M. Pinkovskiy;X. Sala‐i‐Martin / Institute for social and economic research and policy University of Columbia, 2010
- This paper examines the progress of poverty reduction in Africa, stating that African poverty is falling rapidly. The paper denies the claims that because Africa’s economy is largely based on...
- South Africa will fail to halve poverty by 2014: why were “Basic Income Grants” neutered?
- C. Meth / School of Development Studies, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, 2009
- This paper examines the South African government’s mandate to halve unemployment and poverty by 2014, noting the growing evidence of the unlikelihood of this happening. The paper ...
- Flawed data means the incidence of poverty in Greater Cairo is being severely under-estimated
- S. Sabry / International Institute for Environment and Development , 2009
- 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
- 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 ...
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