Each thematic research program produces several online features and briefs every year.
Featured Articles | Research Briefs | Research Digest China's success against poverty: Lessons for Africa?
May 2008 Are there Lasting Impacts of Aid to Poor Areas?
April 2007
Fighting Poverty: Findings and Lessons from China's Success
Sept 2005 Investing Back Home: Return Migration and Business Ownership in Albania
March 6, 2008, Calogero Carletto,Talip Kilic, Benjamin Davis and Alberto Zezza Improving Nutritional Status through Behavioral Change: Lessons from Madagascar
Jan 11, 2008, Emanuela Galasso & Nithin Umapathi
Infant Mortality over the Business Cycle in the Developing World
Nov 9, 2007, Sarah Baird,Jed Friedman, Norbert Schady Poverty, Social Divisions and Conflict in Nepal
May 17, 2007, Quy-Toan Do and Lakshmi Iyer
New Evidence on the Urbanization of Global Poverty
Mar 21, 2007, Martin Ravallion, Shaohua Chen and Prem Sangraula
Migration, Sex Bias and Human Capital Investment: Evidence from Rural Pakistan
Feb 5, 2007, Ghazala Mansuri
Inefficient Lobbying, Populism and Oligarchy
Jan 2, 2007, Francisco H.G. Ferreira and Filipe R. Campante
Are There Lasting Impacts of Aid to Poor Areas? Evidence from Rural China
Dec 1, 2006, Shaohua Chen, Ren Mu, and Martin Ravallion
Local Inequality and Project Choice
Nov 1, 2006, Caridad Araujo, Francisco H.G. Ferreira, Peter Lanjouw, and Berk Ozler
Superstition, Family Planning and Human Development
Oct 9, 2006, Quy-Taon Do and Tung Duc Phung
Land Reallocation in an Agrarian Transition
Oct 2, 2006, Martin Ravallion and Dominique van de Walle 
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New Global Poverty Estimates
Fall 2008, Shaohua Chen and Martin Ravallion
Poverty rates are higher than previously thought. But there is also evidence of continual decline in poverty since the early 1980s. More... The Consequences of Child Labor
Fall 2008, Kathleen Beegle, Rajeev Dehejia, Roberta Gatti, and Sofya Krutikova
Evidence from longitudinal data in rural Tanzania shows that child labor has consequences that carry over into adulthood. More... Dollar a Day Revisited
Summer 2008, Martin Ravallion, Shaohua Chen, and Prem Sangraula
Recent price survey results imply marked upward revisions to the purchasing parities of the power poorest countries. More... Land in Transition: Reform and Poverty in Rural Vietnam
Summer 2008,Martin Ravallion and Dominique van de Walle
Vietnam’s rural land reforms have led to gains in both equity and efficiency, despite greater landlessness and some losers. More...
Local Inequality and Project Choice
March 2008, Caridad Arauijo, Francisco Ferreira, Peter Lanjouw, and Berk Özler
Elites can significantly affect the outcomes of participatory processes, even those that are carefully designed. More...
Work Related Migration and Poverty Reduction
March 2008, Michael Lokshin, Mikhail Bontch-Osmolovski, and Elena Glinkaya
Migration and remittances are key factors in reducing poverty in Nepal—and are likely to remain so. More...
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