This site describes ongoing and planned activities, as well as providing documentation on completed work, with links to closely related activities at the World Bank. The document "Looking Beyond Averages" describes the various components of the ongoing program, which aims to: - improve current data and methods of poverty and inequality analysis, including greater standardization of household survey data, and making data more accessible to users, and
- use the improved data and existing data sources to better understand pro-poor growth and why some growth processes have more impact on poverty than others.
Research Manager: Peter Lanjouw Research Highlights 2007  | New poverty estimates for the developing world
August 2008, Ravallion & Chen publish new estimates of poverty in the developing world in a working paper "The developing world is poorer than we thought but no less successful in the fight against poverty". New data show that 1.4 billion people lived on less than US$1.25 a day in 2005, but progress against poverty remains strong, the authors say.
Article | Brief (Key Findings) in English, Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish | Working paper | Q & A | News release China's success against poverty: Lessons for Africa?
May 2008, While acknowledging that Africa faces constraints that China did not, and that context matters, two lessons stand out. The first is the importance of productivity growth in smallholder agriculture, which will require both market-based incentives and public support. The second is the role played by strong leadership and a capable public administration at all levels of government. More... | | | |  | Dollar a Day Revisited
Summer 2008, 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, Vietnam’s rural land reforms have led to gains in both equity and efficiency, despite greater landlessness and some losers. More... |
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