2013 |
Learning by Doing: The Social Observatory
Featured Article, Mar. 2013
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2012 |
New Estimates Reveal Drop in Extreme Poverty 2005-2010
Featured Article, Feb. 2012 |
ADePT: A Helping Hand for Evidence-Based Decisions: Free Software Empowers Users
Featured Article, Jan. 2012 |
2011 |
Living Standard Measurement Study: When Data Collection is Intrepid
Featured Article, May 2011 |
Inequality: The Haves and Have-Nots
Featured Article, Jan. 2011 |
2010 |
Scoring Poverty Reduction in Brazil, China, and India
An assessment of progress against poverty points to key differences in pro-poor growth and pro-poor social policies.
Research Digest, Winter 2010 |
Economic Crises Taking a Toll on Children
Featured article, Apr. 2010 |
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2009 |
Social Safety Nets: Lessons from Rich and Poor Countries
Featured Article, Apr. 2009 |
2008 |
New Global Poverty Estimates
Poverty rates are higher than previously thought. But there is also evidence of continual decline in poverty since the early 1980s.
Research Digest, Fall 2008 |
The Consequences of Child Labor
Evidence from longitudinal data in rural Tanzania shows that child labor has consequences that carry over into adulthood.
Research Digest, Fall 2008 |
Dollar a Day Revisited
Recent price survey results imply marked upward revisions to the purchasing parities of the power poorest countries.
Research Digest, Summer 2008 |
Land in Transition: Reform and Poverty in Rural Vietnam
Vietnam’s rural land reforms have led to gains in both equity and efficiency, despite greater landlessness and some losers.
Research Digest, Summer 2008 |
China's success against poverty: Lessons for Africa?
China’s role as an investor and donor in Africa is much scrutinized. While private investment and aid flows from China may benefit Africa’s poor, what might be more significant are the lessons for Africa from China’s success in fighting poverty back home.
Featured Article, May 2008 |
Work Related Migration and Poverty Reduction
Migration and remittances are key factors in reducing poverty in Nepal—and are likely to remain so.
Research Digest, Mar. 2008 |
Local Inequality and Project Choice
Elites can significantly affect the outcomes of participatory processes, even those that are carefully designed.
Research Digest, Mar. 2008 |
Investing Back Home: Return Migration and Business Ownership in Albania
Recent research indicates Albanian households with higher exposure to past migration experience are more likely to invest in a small business upon the completion of their “migration cycle.”
Research Brief, Mar. 2008 |
Improving Malnutrition through Behavioral Change: Lessons from Madagascar
A recent impact evaluation study of a community based nutrition program in Madagascar shows that malnutrition can be improved over the short- and long-term when mothers participate in community health programs that promote behavioral change in nutrition, feeding, and hygiene practices.
Research Brief, Jan. 2008 |
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2007 |
Infant Mortality over the Business Cycle in the Developing World
Research Brief, Nov. 2007 |
Poverty, Social Divisions and Conflict in Nepal
Research Brief, May 2007 |
Are there Lasting Impacts of Aid to Poor Areas?
Featured Article, Apr. 2007 |
New Evidence on the Urbanization of Global Poverty
Research Brief, Mar. 2007 |
Migration, Sex Bias and Human Capital Investment: Evidence from Rural Pakistan
Research Brief, Feb. 2007 |
Inefficient Lobbying, Populism and Oligarchy
Research Brief, Jan. 2007 |
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2006 |
Are There Lasting Impacts of Aid to Poor Areas? Evidence from Rural China
Research Brief, Dec. 2006 |
Local Inequality and Project Choice
Research Brief, Nov. 2006 |
Superstition, Family Planning and Human Development
Research Brief, Oct. 2006 |
Land Reallocation in an Agrarian Transition
Oct 2, 2006 Research Brief |
2005 |
Fighting Poverty: Findings and Lessons from China's Success
Featured Article, Sep. 2005 |
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