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Poverty and Inequality
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The research program has two main objectives: (1) to improve current data as well as methods and tools for poverty and inequality analysis. This includes producing new household-level data (notably through the group’s Living Standards Measurement Study), monitoring poverty and inequality using household-level data, developing more reliable “poverty maps”, and rolling out computational tools such as ADePT and PovCalNet; (2) to use the improved data and existing data sources to better understand the economic and social processes determining the extent of poverty and inequality and to assess the effectiveness of specific policies in reducing poverty. | | Research Manager: Peter Lanjouw | Publications in 2011 |
RECENT BOOKS |  | History, Historians and Development Policy: A Necessary Dialogue (2011)
This book seeks to facilitate a more constructive exchange between historians, social scientists (especially economists) and policymakers. How might historians fruitfully contribute to development policy?
More | Blog (March 5, 2012) | Order |  | Contesting Development: Participatory Projects and Local Conflict Dynamics in Indonesia (2011)
This book analyzes a highly successful participatory development program in Indonesia, exploring its distinctive origins and design principles and its impacts on local conflict dynamics and social institutions.
Order | Featured Research Article |  | Perspectives on Poverty in India: Stylized Facts from Survey Data (2011)
This book aims to develops the evidence base for policy making in relation to poverty reduction. It produces a diagnosis of the broad nature of the poverty problem and its trends in India, focusing on both consumption poverty and human development outcomes.
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WORKING PAPERS | Poor, or Just Feeling Poor? On Using Subjective Data in Measuring Poverty
While one would not want to use self-assessments as welfare metrics in their own right, there is scope for using such data to calibrate multidimensional measures.
Working Paper 5968, Feb. 2012 | Multidimensional Poverty Analysis: Looking for a Middle Ground
We can do better than either "mashup indices" or "dashboards" for measuring poverty
Working Paper 5964, Feb. 2012 | More working papers >> |
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