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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 | Research Highlights 2010 | New Books |  | Contesting Development: Participatory Projects and Local Conflict Dynamics in Indonesia
April 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 the book | Featured Research Article |  | Perspectives on Poverty in India: Stylized Facts from Survey Data
April 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.
Order the book |  | The Haves and the Have-Nots: A Brief and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality
January 2011 - This book taps into literature, history, current events,and other engaging questions (who was the richest person ever, for example) to explain the ever-widening gap between the have-nots, haves, and "have-mores."
Order the book | Featured Research Article | New York Times Book Review |
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This paper validates a recently proposed method to estimate intra-generational mobility through repeated cross-sectional surveys.
Working Paper 5916, December 2011 | Fact or Artefact: The Impact of Measurement Errors on the Farm Size - Productivity Relationship
This paper revisits the role of land measurement error in the inverse farm size and productivity relationship.
Working Paper 5908, December 2011 | Explaining the Demand for Sovereignty
This paper proposes an economic explanation whereby a tradeoff between income and sovereignty implies that, other things being equal, richer regions are more likely to want more autonomy and conflict arises due to a disparity between desired and actual levels of sovereignty.
Working Paper 5888, November 2011 | The Regressive Demands of Demand-Driven Development
This paper explains overlooked evidence in the community driven development literature---the requirement that beneficiaries must apply for projects in order to receive support.
Working Paper 5883, November 2011 | More working papers >> |
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