| On Poverty |
28 March 2007
From The
World Bank on financial and private sector development
The Next 4 Billion: Market Size and Business Strategy at the Base of
the Pyramid - March 2007
Four billion people who live in relative poverty have purchasing power
representing a $5 trillion market, according to a report by the IFC, the
private sector arm of the World Bank Group, and World Resources
Institute (WRI).
The report is the first to measure the size of markets at the base of
the economic pyramid using income and expenditure data from household
surveys. The analysis is complemented by an overview of business
strategies from successful enterprises operating in these markets.
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E. Aryeetey, 2005
Globalization, employment and poverty in Ghana
Globalization has definitely created opportunities for various parts of the economy to
gain access to larger pools of resources as well as markets. While this may generally
be perceived to have impacted positively on the beneficiaries, there are also
indications that globalization has introduced new risks to environments that were
hitherto closed to those risks. The increased risk may, in some cases, have accentuated
poverty and worsened income distribution in parts of the country. |
M. Nissanke and E. Thorbecke, 2005
The impact of globalization on the World's poor: transmission mechanisms
This process of globalisation is one of the most critical developments affecting the
evolution of national economies. Globalization offers participating countries new
opportunities for accelerating growth and development but, at the same time, it also
poses challenges to, and imposes constraints on policy makers in the management of
national, regional and global economic systems. While the opportunities offered by
globalization can be large, a question is often raised as to whether the actual
distribution of gains is fair, in particular, whether the poor benefit less than
proportionately from globalization – and could under some circumstances actually be
hurt by it.
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United Nations University
WIDER Conference on
Spatial Inequality in Asia
UNU Tokyo, 28-29 March 2003
Themes addressed by the conference:
- Spatial inequality in China
- Inequality and conflict
- Poverty and inequality in India
- Poverty in Asia
- Location and Migration
- Trade and inequality
- Spatial inequality in Asia
- Spatial inequalities in Former Soviet Union
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From The Globalist - March 15 2006
Poverty
Traps and Global Development
Is global
poverty today the fault of the poor or part of a vicious cycle?
By
Stephen C. Smith
More than 800 million across the world suffer from chronic hunger. Is it their
fault? No, says Stephen C. Smith, the author of “Ending Global Poverty: A Guide
to What Works.” Instead, these people are trapped in a vicious cycle. He
examines 12 common poverty traps and argues that sometimes traps are
deliberately set by the rich to ensnare the poor — while the rich reap the
financial benefits.
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Asia
— A Vision for 2015
Despite
substantial growth, what needs to be done to reduce poverty in Asia?
By
Matthew Hulbert
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How
to Help the Poor Out of Poverty
Will aid
initiatives help the poor overcome poverty or only lead to a worsening
of the situation?
By
Stephen C. Smith
Currently, the world is governed by
one-dollar-one-vote, giving control
to rich country donors. Ultimately, the structure of World Bank decisionmaking
will have to give way to a more people-friendly formula.
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The World Bank on poverty: the point of view of market fundamentalists
World Development Report 1990: Poverty
"This Report is about poverty in the developing world -in other words, it is concerned with the poorest of the world's poor. It seeks
first to measure poverty, qualitatively as well as quantitatively. It then tries to draw lessons for policy from
the experience of countries that have succeed in reducing poverty. It ends with a question that is also a challenge:
what might be achieved if governments in rich and poor countries alike made it their goal to attack poverty in this closing
decade of the twentieth century?"...
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R. Kanbur (1990)
Poverty and Development: The Human Development Report and the World Development Report, 1990
Contents
1. Introduction
2. Measuring Poverty
3. Evolution of Poverty in the Developing World
4. Policies and Poverty
4.1 Who are the poor, and how can they be helped?
4.2 What does country experience tell us?
4.3 Public Expenditures, Targeting and Poverty Alleviation
4.4 Stabilization, Adjustment and Poverty
5. Conclusion
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6 September 2005
Capitalist Social Terrorism
Note by Róbinson Rojas: Capitalist market work
concentrating capital in the hand of a minority and creating capitalist economic
terrorism (as I defined it elsewhere) because capital concentration give also
overwhelming political power to the big capitalists and their political servants. From the
above capital social terrorism arises, which dramatically polarizes society. United States
is the best example of this capitalist social terrorism in action which Hurricane Katrina
uncovered for the whole world to see. In United States like in any modern capitalist
society creation of wealth goes parallel to creation of inequality and poverty. The
readers below, taken from The Washington Post and The New York Times, are a useful
description of the main features of capitalist social terrorism. (6 September 2005)
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From The New York Times - 8 September 2005
Macabre
Reminder: The Corpse on Union Street
By Dan Barry
NEW ORLEANS, - In the downtown business district here, on a dry stretch of Union Street,
past the Omni Bank automated teller machine, across from a parking garage offering
"early bird" rates: a corpse. Its feet jut from a damp blue tarp. Its knees rise
in rigor mortis. Six National Guardsmen walked up to it on Tuesday afternoon and two
blessed themselves with the sign of the cross. One soldier took a parting snapshot like
some visiting conventioneer, and they walked away. New Orleans, September 2005.
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From The Washington Post - 6 September 2005
The Lagging
Poor
"The Census Bureau's annual report on
income, poverty and health insurance in the United States is not alarming -- but neither
is it cheering, or even reassuring. Rather, the numbers underscore the lagging and uneven
nature of the economic recovery since the 2001 recession. According to the new data, 4
million more people were living in poverty in 2004 than in 2001, and 4.6 million more
people lacked health insurance."
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From The New York Times - 6 September 2005
The Larger
Shame
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
The wretchedness coming across our television screens from Louisiana has illuminated the
way children sometimes pay with their lives, even in America, for being born to poor
families.
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From The Washington Post - 5 September 2005
Disaster Cleanup
Halliburton
Subsidiary Taps Contract For Repairs
By Lolita C. Baldor
An Arlington-based Halliburton Co. subsidiary that has been criticized for its
reconstruction work in Iraq has begun tapping a $500 million Navy contract to do emergency
repairs at Gulf Coast naval and Marine facilities damaged by Hurricane Katrina.
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From The Washington Post - 3 September 2005
Kanye West's
Torrent of Criticism, Live on NBC
"I hate the way they portray us in the media. You
see a black family, it says, "They're looting." You see a white family, it says,
"They're looking for food." And, you know, it's been five days [waiting for
federal help] because most of the people are black."
By Lisa de Moraes
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From The Washington Post - 3 September 2005
Oil Firms
Turn Katrina Into Profits, Clinton Says
N.Y. Senator Criticizes Lack of National Leadership,
Freedom From Imports
By Dan Balz
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From The New York Times - 3 September 2005
Editorial
Katrina's
Assault on Washington
Do not be misled by Congress's approval of $10.5
billion in relief for the Hurricane Katrina victims. That's prompted by the graphic shock
of the news coverage from New Orleans and the region, where the devastation catapults
daily, in heartbreaking contrast with the slo-mo bumblings of government.
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From The New York Times - 3 September 2005
United
States of Shame
By Maureen Dowd
Stuff happens. And when you combine limited government with incompetent government, lethal
stuff happens. America is once more plunged into a snake pit of anarchy, death, looting,
raping, marauding thugs, suffering innocents, a shattered infrastructure, a gutted police
force, insufficient troop levels and criminally negligent government planning. But this
time it's happening in America.
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From The New York Times - 2 September 2005
They Saw It
Coming
By Mark Fischetti
THE deaths caused by Hurricane Katrina are heart-rending. The suffering of survivors is
wrenching. Property destruction is shocking. But perhaps the most agonizing part is that
much of what happened in New Orleans this week might have been avoided.
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From The New York Times - 2 September 2005
From Margins
of Society to Center of the Tragedy
By David González
The scenes of floating corpses, scavengers fighting for food and desperate throngs seeking
any way out of New Orleans have been tragic enough. But for many African-American leaders,
there is a growing outrage that many of those still stuck at the center of this tragedy
were people who for generations had been pushed to the margins of society
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From The New York Times - 2 September 2005
Cameras
Captured a Disaster but Now Focus on Suffering
By Alessandra Stanley
A woman in a wheelchair, her face and body covered by a plaid blanket, dead, and left next
to a wall of the New Orleans convention center like a discarded supermarket cart. There
were many other appalling images from Hurricane Katrina on Thursday, but that one was a
turning point: after three days of flood scenes, television shifted from recording a
devastating natural disaster to exposing human failures.
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The New York Times
- 10 June 2005
Losing Our Country
By Paul Krugman
"The middle-class society I grew up in no longer exists. Working families have seen
little if any progress over the past 30 years. Adjusted for inflation, the income of the
median family doubled between 1947 and 1973. But it rose only 22 percent from 1973 to
2003, and much of that gain was the result of wives' entering the paid labor force or
working longer hours, not rising wages.
But the wealthy have done very well indeed. Since 1973 the average income of the top 1
percent of Americans has doubled, and the income of the top 0.1 percent has tripled."
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18 March 2005
Development and Security
By The Globalist
Is too much emphasis put on the military dimension of security today? And how does global
poverty factor into the equation? These are the issues explored by Horst Köhler —
now Germany’s President and previously the Managing Director of the International
Monetary Fund. In this Read My Lips feature, Mr. Köhler argues that the world needs a
broader interpretation of the term “security.”
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From The World Bank
Group
On Poverty
and Environment (1994 - 2004)
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Structural Adjustment Participatory Review Initiative
(SAPRIN):
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The Policy Roots of Economic Crisis and Poverty. Full report
A multi-country participatory assessment of structural adjustment.
Executive
Summary
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The
World Bank Group acknowledges the dramatic social and economic damage caused by its
economic policies (mainly structural adjustment programmes) imposed on developing
societies in the last 30 years, and launches a new neo-liberal recipe called
"development policy lending". Of course, being The World Bank Group the
"visible hand" of the big international capital, its new development policy
lending looks very much the same old wine in new bottles. Below are the official press
releases and papers by the World Bank Group
(Dr. Róbinson Rojas) (August 2004)
..
From Adjustment Lending to Development Policy
Support Lending
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Fighting against poverty
(16-12-2004)
Reflect and ICT Project
This DFID-funded project is exploring potential
applications of ICTs for poor and marginalised people, linking to existing Reflect groups
in Uganda, Burundi and India.
During the first year (2003), participating groups were encouraged to analyse issues
around their own access to and control of information relating to their livelihoods:
looking at the value of information to their own lives, the control of information
resources, existing sources of information and communication mechanisms
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ICT for Development: empowerment or exploitation?
Learning from Reflect ICTs project
By Hannah Beardon et al
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March 2005
The end of poverty
Economic possibilities for our time
by Jeffrey D. Sachs
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13 December 2004 -
OXFAM
Poor are paying the price of rich countries' failure
45 million more children will die between now and 2015
247 million more people in sub-Saharan Africa will be living on less than $1 a day in 2015
97 million more children will still be out of school in 2015
53 million more people in the world will lack proper sanitation facilities.
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Monitoring Poverty and Social Exclusion
This site monitors what is happening to poverty and
social exclusion in the UK and complements our annual monitoring reports. The material is
organised around 50 statistical indicators covering all aspects of the subject, from
income and work to health and education.
The indicators and graphs can be viewed by age group or by subject. All data is from
official sources and is the latest available. All graphs and text will be updated whenever
new data becomes available. Finally, there is a comprehensive set of links to other
relevant documents and sites on the Internet.
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A. Deaton, July
2004
Measuring Poverty
Research Program in Development Studies, Princeton University
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Social Watch Annual Reports:
2004:Fear and Want. Obstacles to Human Security
2003:
The Poor and the Market
2002:
The social impact of globalisation in the world
2001:
Much ado...
2000:
From the summits to the grassroots
1999:
From the summits to the grassroots
1998:
Equity and social development
1997:
From the summits to the grassroots
1996:
Women and citizenship in Latin America |
World Bank Group:
World Development Report 2004
Making Services work for poor people
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Background papers
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July 6, 2004 - IMF
Report on the Evaluation of Poverty
Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) and the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF)
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Oxfam, 2004
From "Donorship" to ownership?
Moving towards PRSP Round Two
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From the IMF. PRSP
and PRGF:
Sierra Leone and the IMF |
Pakistan ( 31-12-03) : PRSP: Accelerating Economic Growth and Reducing Poverty: the road ahead
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The World Bank:
Poverty Reduction Strategies and Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers.-Document
Library |
2005
Critical voices on the World Bank and IMF
The ABC of the PRSP
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African monitoring of the PRSP process
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VENRO - PRSP-watch
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The World Bank
Group
PovertyNet
Library
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Topics
- Culture and Poverty
- Data on Poverty
- Empowerment
- Impact Evaluation
- Poverty Analysis
- Poverty and Health
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Analysis
- Poverty Monitoring
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Sourcebook, Learning Events and Comprehensive Review
- PovertyNet Learning Resources
- Pro-Poor Growth and
Inequality
- PRSPs
- Safety Nets and Transfers
- Social Capital
- Voices of the Poor
- World Bank Activities
- World Development Report
2000/2001: Attacking Poverty
Documents
- Speeches and Interviews
- Press Releases
Videos
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World Development Report 2005 Draft
Improving the investment climate for growth and
poverty reduction
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The World Bank: B-SPAN.
Webcasting for Development
UNDP: Choices
for the poor
UNDP: Definitions,
measurement and analysis of poverty
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UNCTAD:
The Least Developed Countries Reports
2004 -
Linking International Trade with Poverty Reduction
2002 -
Escaping the Poverty Trap
2000 -
Aid, Private Capital Flows and External Debt: The Challenge of financing Development in
the LDCs
1999 -
Marginalization, Productive Capacities and the Least Developed Countries
1998 -
Trade, Investment and the Multilateral Trading System
1997 -
Agricultural Development and Policy Reforms in Least Developed Countries
1996 -
Selected Issues in the Context of Interdependence
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The
World Bank Group acknowledges the dramatic social and economic damage caused by its
economic policies imposed on developing societies in the last 30 years, and launches a new
neo-liberal recipe called "development policy lending". Of course, being The
World Bank Group the "visible hand" of the big international capital, its new
development policy lending looks very much the same old wine in new bottles. Below
are the official press releases (Dr. Róbinson Rojas)
..
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The state of food insecurity in the world
reports on global and national efforts to reach the goal set by the 1996 World Food Summit: to reduce by half the
number of undernourished people in the world by the year 2015.
FAO has the mandate to monitor progress in hunger reduction based on accurate, reliable
and timely methods that measure the prevalence of hunger, food insecurity and
vulnerability and that also illustrate changes over time.
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Full SOFI report 2003
SOFI 2003 summary in
pdf (95 K)
News Story (1)
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Full SOFI report 2002
SOFI 2002 summary in
pdf (159 K)
News Stories (1) (2)
International Year of the Mountains
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Full SOFI report 2001
Press
release
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Full SOFI report 2000
Full SOFI report 2000
in pdf (1 MB)
SOFI 2000 summary in
pdf (376 K)
FAO Focus on SOFI
News and Highlights
Press
release
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Full SOFI report 1999 in pdf (1
MB)
SOFI 1999 summary in
pdf (328 K)
FAO Focus on SOFI 1999
Press
release
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World
Bank :
Global
Economic Prospects 2004
Realizing the Development Promise of the Doha Agenda
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| R.
Kanbur: Economic
policy, distribution and poverty: the nature of disagreements |
| Rural Poverty Report 2001.- IFAD |
| Global Poverty Report
.-G8 Okinawa Summit.-July 2000 |
| The popular coalition to
erradicate hunger and poverty |
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| The
University of Texas Inequality Project |
| Inequality, Poverty, and
Socio-Economic Performance |
| Poverty Trends and the
Voice of the Poor .- World Bank |
| World Development Report
2000/1. Attacking poverty |
| Voices of the Poor.
Defining poverty.-World Bank |
| World Bank: Country information sheets
on health, nutrition, population, and poverty |
World Bank 2000: Rethinking
Development. Challenges and Opportunities. Globalization with a human face
World Bank: "Globalization,
Growth and Poverty: Building an inclusive world economy", 2002 |
| The Poverty Monitoring Database |
| DATA ON POVERTY from the
OECD, U. N. and the World Bank |
Poverty
(World Bank)
2000 World Bank Conference on Evaluation and Poverty Reduction
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Papers for the 1999 World Bank
Conference on Evaluation and Poverty Reduction,
Wahington, June 14-15 1999:
J. Tendler/R. Serrano, "The
rise of social funds: what are they a model for?", MIT, 1999
A. Figueroa, "Social
Exclusion and Rural Development", Catholic University of Peru, 1999
A. Shepherd, "Evaluation of
DFID Support to Poverty Reduction", The University of Birmingham, 1999
P. Dasgupta, "Poverty
reduction and non-market institutions", The University of Cambridge, 1999
"Development effectiveness in
health, nutrition, and population" , Document of the World Bank, 1999
R. Sartorius, "Participatory
monitoring and evaluation systems: improving the performance of poverty reduction programs
and building capacity of local partners", Social Impact, 1999
E.T. Jackson, "The strategy
choices of stakeholders: examining the front-end costs and downstream benefits of
participatory evaluation", Carleton University, 1999
M. Lustig/ A. Legovini, "Economic
crisis and social protection of the poor: the Latin American experience",
Inter-American Development Bank, 1999
S. Benjamin, "Land,
productive slums, and urban poverty", MIT, 1999
"World faiths development
dialogue. A different perspective on development and poverty", Comment on the
World Development Report 2000, 1999
M. Cohen (USAID) and J. Sebstad (MSI), "Microfinance impact
evaluation: going down market", 1999
E. Thorbecke, "Evaluation
of Poverty - Alleviation Impact of Alternative Development Strategies and Adjustment
Responses in Africa and Asia", Cornell University, 1999
S. Feldman, "Rural-Urban
linkages in South Asia: contemporary themes and policy directions", Cornell
University, 1999
F. Stewart, "Crisis
Prevention: tackling horizontal inequalities", 1999
R. Gunatilaka, "Rural
infrastructure programmes for poverty reduction: policy issues from the Sri Lankan
experience", IPS, Colombo, 1999
D. Gunewardena, "Urban
poverty in South Asia", University of Peradeniya, 1999
S. Ahmed, "NGOs and
evaluation: the BRAC experience", 1999
S. Sharma, "Land tenure and
poverty in Nepal", 1999
M. Mujeri, "Institutional
arrangements for promoting poverty reduction in South Asia. The Bangladesh case",
CIRDAP, 1999
B. K. Pradhan and A. Subramanian, "Structural
adjustment, education and poor households in India: analysis of a sample survey",
1999
P. Malaney, "Demographic
change and poverty reduction", 1999
K. Ezemenari, A. Rudqvist, and K. Subbarao, "Impact evaluation: a note on
concepts and methods", 1999 |
| Poverty reduction and the
World Bank: progress in fiscal 1998 |
| Social Crisis in Asia (World
Bank) |
| R. van der
Hoeven: Poverty and Structural Adjustment. Tradeoffs between equity
and growth |
| CEPAL: Panorama Social de
America Latina. 1998. Sintesis |
| CEPAL: Panorama Social
de America Latina. 1998. Presentacion |
| Social Watch on poverty eradication and gender equity |
POVERTY AND
DEVELOPMENT. An (Im)balance Sheet:
1.- Poverty Perspectives (UN)
2.- Poverty and Development. An (Im)balance Sheet (UN)
3.- Poverty: Casting long shadows (UN)
4.- The faces of poverty (UN)
5.- The geography of poverty (UN)
6.- Analysis of Income and Poverty Data (1959-1993) (U.S.A.)
6.1 Poverty Status of Persons, by Family Relationship,
Race,and Hispanic Origin: 1959 to 1993 (U.S.A.)
6.2 Per capita money income, by race and Hispanic origin
U.S.A.) (1970-1993)
6.3 Income 1996. United States
6.4 Poverty 1996. United States |
| UNCTAD:
Globalization and Liberalization: Effects of International
economic relations on Poverty |
| UNCTAD:
The Trade and Development Report, 1997 (press release 1) |
| UNCTAD:
The Trade and Development Report, 1997 (press release 2) |
| UNDP:
Human Development Report 1996 (excerpts) |
| UNDP:
Poverty Eradication: A Policy Framework for Country Strategies |
| U.N.:
Report of the Secretary General -1998 |
| U.N.:
Describing poverty: 61 ways |
| Anup Shah: Global Issues that Affect Everyone: POVERTY |
| Comparative Research Programme on Poverty |
| ELDIS:
Poverty |
| International Labour Organisation |
| World of Work -The magazine of the ILO |
| R. Ruffin: Le logement social, entre
pénurie et ségrégation (Nov. 2003) |
| K.
Watkins: The Oxfam Poverty
Report, 1995 (excerpts) |
K.
Watkins: Globalization and Liberalization: Implications for poverty,
distribution and inequality, 1997 |
| Amei
Zhang: Poverty alleviation in China: commitment, Policy and
Expenditures, 1997 |
| O.
Altimir: Growth, Human Development in Latin American countries
-long-term Trends, 1996 |
| M.ul
Haq: Human Development in a changing world, 1992 |
| R.Rojas:
The dynamics of unequal social
relations: gender, race, income |
| Foreign Policy IN FOCUS
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State of the World's
Children 1998:
Chapter I
Malnutrition: Causes, consequences and solutions
Chapter II
Statistical tables
1 Basic indicators
2 Nutrition
3 Health
4 Education
5 Demographic indicators
6 Economic indicators
7 Women
8 The rate of progress
Measuring human development
Regional summaries country list
1 Vitamin A supplements save pregnant
women's lives
2 What is malnutrition?
3 Stunting linked to impaired intellectual
development
4 Recognizing the right to nutrition
5 Growth and sanitation: What can we learn
from chickens?
6 Breastmilk and transmission of HIV
7 High-energy biscuits for mothers boost
infant survival by
50 per cent
8 UNICEF and the World Food Programme
9 Triple A takes hold in Oman
10 Celebrating gains in children's health
in Brazil
11 Rewriting Elias's story in Mbeya
12 Women in Niger take the lead against
malnutrition
13 BFHI: Breastfeeding breakthroughs
14 Tackling malnutrition in Bangladesh
15 Kiwanis mobilize to end iodine
deficiency's deadly toll
16 Indonesia makes strides against
vitamin A deficiency
17 Making food enrichment programmes
sustainable
18 Zinc and vitamin A: Taking the sting
out of malaria
19 Protecting nutrition in crises
20 Progress against worms for pennies
21 Child nutrition a priority for the new
South Africa
Ten steps to successful breastfeeding
Vitamin A
Zinc
Iron
Iodine
Folate
Fig.1 Malnutrition and child mortality
Fig.2 Trends in child malnutrition, by
region
Fig.3 From good nutrition to greater
productivity and beyond
Fig.4 Poverty and malnutrition in Latin
America and the
Caribbean
Fig.5 Causes of child malnutrition
Fig.6 Inadequate dietary intake/disease
cycle
Fig.7 Intergenerational cycle of growth
failure
Fig.8 Better nutrition through triple A
Fig.9 Iodine deficiency disorders and
salt iodization
Fig.10 Progress in vitamin A
supplementation programmes
Fig.11 Measles deaths and vitamin A
supplementation
Fig.12 Zinc supplementation and child
growth (Ecuador, 1986)
Fig.13 Maternal height and Caesarean
delivery (Guatemala, 1984-1986)
Glossary
Press Kit
Summary: Malnutrition: Causes, consequences and solutions
Fact Sheet: Summing up malnutrition's shame
Fact Sheet: Malnutrition: Causes
Fact Sheet: Micronutrients
Feature: Child malnutrition and women's rights
Feature: In Burundi camps, the spetre of malnutrition looms
Feature: Malnutrition in industrialized countries |
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The Progress of Nations 1997:
1. Foreword by Kofi A. Anan, Secretary-General United Nations
2. Charting progress for children: Introduction by Carol
Bellamy, UNICEF Executive Director
3. Water and Sanitation
Commentary - The Sanitation gap: Development's deadly menace
3.1 Sanitation League Table
3.2 Water/sanitation gap widening
3.3 79% of all guinea worm cases occurring in Sudan
3.4 Grading school sanitation: Few high marks
3.5 Making ORT a household habit
4. Nutrition
Commentary - Putting babies before business
4.1 Nutrition League Table
4.2 Exclusive breastfeeding: A chance for survival
4.3 One in five babies too small at birth
4.4 Stunting: A scar and a wound
4.5 Slow starters catching up in salt iodization
5. Health
Commentary - Fighting AIDS together
5.1 Gauging AIDS' terrible toll
5.2 Health League Table
5.3 Pneumonia: K=Little progress on a big killer
5.4 52 countries falling short on immunization goal for DPT
5.5 Neonatal deaths: 5 million each year
5.6 Malaria's death toll: A child every 30 seconds
6. Education
Commentary - Quality education: One answer for many questions
6.1 Doing more with less
6.2 Girls' education: Commitment or neglect?
6.3 Maths and science: Some developing countries score high
6.4 Do teachers make the grade?
6.5 Rural kids short-changed
7. Women
Commentary - The intolerable status quo: Violence against women and girls
7.1 Women's League Table
7.2 Outlawing violence against women: A first step
7.3 Risk of death in childbirth can be as high as 1 in 7
7.4 A bill of rights for women, but with reservations
7.5 Help wanted: Skilled birth attendants
8. Special Protections
Commentary - No age of innocence: Justice for children
8.1 Old enough to be a criminal?
8.2 Over 7 million children are refugees
8.3 Hidden killers
8.4 The cost of war: Billions for development diverted to emergencies
9. Industrialized Countries
Commentary - Healthy cities, healthy children
9.1 Youth unemployment rate highest in Spain, lowest in Austria and Switzerland
9.2 Teens at risk: Drinking and bullying
9.3 Sharing the wealth? Aid at lowest level in 45 years
10 Statistical Tables
Social Indicators for Less Populous Countries
Statistical Profiles for 149 countries
The age of the data
Abbreviations
Statistical tables are available at the UNICEF website
URL http://www.unicef.org/pon97/stat1.htm
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Conference on Hunger and Poverty: A popular coalition for action
I. Introduction
II. Nature and Dimensions of the Problems of Hunger and Poverty.Incidence of Hunger by
Region (table)
III. Forty Years of Development Practice
IV.The Search for a New Paradigm -- Civil Society: Development from the Roots Up
V. Priority Areas for the Conference
Empowerment of the Hungry and the Poor
(a) Participation in Decision-making
(b) Command Over Productive Resources
Technology Generation and Transfer
Poverty and Environmental Degradation
Beyond Emergency Relief
VI. Summary and Conclusion
Discussion Paper 1: Empowerment of the poor
Discussion Paper 2: Enhancing technology generation and diffusion
Discussion Paper 3: Combating environmental degradation
Discussion Paper 4: Preventing disaster and reducing its impact on
the poor |
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Sustainability
Postgraduate courses on Environment and Development
Education at London South Bank University |
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Climate Change: the challenge for education
Thursday 4 May 2006, 9.30 am–4.30 pm
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2 March 2005
Redistributing Global Inequality.
A thought experiment
by Jozsef Borocz
The United Nations proclaimed the period 1997-2006 as the ‘First United Nations
Decade for the Eradication of Poverty’. The 1995 UN resolution recognised the
existence of global inequalities that have deepened over time and assigned different tasks
to donor (wealthy) nations and developing countries to ensure a greater equity among
nations. This article focuses on the fiscal feasibility of a plan for global inequality
reduction, a project that can be defined as a large-scale historic social process of
social change aiming to diminish ‘oligarchic wealth’ in favour of a less
extremely unbalanced structure of distribution, that is, ‘democratic wealth’.
The project proposes global collective action to reduce interstate inequality in per
capita economic performance. A successful implementation of such a project would, however,
require the construction of social and political institutions leading to political action
by a majority of humankind.
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From the Chronic Poverty Research Centre
Chronic Poverty Report 2004-2005
The Chronic Poverty Report 2004-05 is about people
living in chronic poverty - people who remain poor for much or all of their lives, many of
whom will pass on their poverty to their children and all too often die easily preventable
deaths. People in chronic poverty are those who have benefited least from economic growth
and development. They, and their children, will make up the majority of the 900 million
people still in poverty in 2015 even if the Millennium Development Goals are met.
Contents:
Front
matter. Acknowledgments,
CPRC and partner contact details, Foreword, Overview and Contents.
PART A:
Global
chronic poverty in 2004 -05
Chapter
1: What is chronic
poverty and why does it matter?
Chapter
2: Who is
chronically poor?
Chapter
3: Where do
chronically poor people live?
Chapter
4: Why are people
chronically poor?
Chapter
5: What should be
done about chronic poverty?
PART B:
Regional
perspectives on the experience of chronic poverty
Chapter
6: Understanding
chronic poverty in sub-Saharan Africa
Chapter
7: Understanding
chronic poverty in South Asia
Chapter
8: Understanding
chronic poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean
Chapter
9: Understanding
chronic poverty in transitional countries
Chapter 10: Understanding
chronic poverty in China
PART C:
Measuring
global trends on chronic poverty: statistical appendix
Chapter 11:
Measuring
chronic poverty
APPENDICES
A,
B, C, D
A - Glossary of
terms
B - References
C - CPRC working papers and background papers
D - The Chronic Poverty Report 2006-07
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From the Center for Economic and Policy Research
The Scorecard on Globalization 1980-2000
Twenty Years of Diminished Progress
M. Weisbrot, D. Baker, E. Kraev and J. Chen - July 11,
2001
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Poor Numbers: The Impact of Trade Liberalization on World Poverty
M. Weisbrot, D. Rosnik, and D. Baker - November 18,
2004
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Going Down with the Dollar: The Cost to Developing Countries of a
Declining Dollar
M. Weisbrot, D. Rosnick, adn D. Baker - September 20,
2004
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M. Dulic, August
24, 2004
Is decentralisation vital for poverty
reduction?
In a series of development paradigms, decentralization
that carries the premises of democracy is one of the latest development strategies to
reduce poverty. According to the glossary (KIT Information and Library Services, ILS,
2002), "decentralization is the gradual process of transforming power and resources
from central government to the lower level of government, such as the regions, provinces,
districts and municipalities." Although this definition does not explain how
decentralization can reduce poverty, empirical evidence indicates that decentralization
provides better accountability and responsiveness. When a society is decentralized, social
capital has a better chance to sustain itself and participation at different local levels
gives a community a role of a direct client and controller over the society's own needs
(Katsiaouni, 2003). |
| World Development
Report 2000/2001: Attacking Poverty
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External
review |
| "A
Critical Review of the WDR" by the Comparative Research Programme on Poverty |
Related
links |
| WDR 2005: Improving the Investment Climate
for Growth and Poverty Reduction |
| More WDRs |
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Background Materials
Consultations
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Discussion papers from the World Institute for
Development Research:
DP2004/07 Ruut Veenhoven: Subjective Measures of Well-being (PDF 250KB)
DP2004/06 Des Gasper: Human Well-being: Concepts and Conceptualizations
(PDF 291KB)
DP2004/05 Stephan Klasen: Gender-Related
Indicators of Well-Being (PDF 253KB)
DP2004/04 Erik Thorbecke: Conceptual and
Measurement Issues in Poverty Analysis (PDF 211KB)
DP2004/02 Bart Capéau and André Decoster: The Rise
or Fall of World Inequality: A Spurious Controversy? (PDF
233KB)
DP2004/01 Anthony Shorrocks and Guanghua Wan: Spatial
Decomposition of Inequality (PDF 200KB)
DP2003/90 Simon Appleton: Regional or
National Poverty Lines? The Case of Uganda in the 1990s (PDF
204KB)
DP2003/74 Stanislav Kolenikov and Anthony Shorrocks: A
Decomposition Analysis of Regional Poverty in Russia (PDF
326KB)
DP2003/73 Javier Escobal and Máximo Torero: Adverse Geography
and Differences in Welfare in Peru (PDF 3120KB)
DP2003/70 Luc Christiaensen, Lionel Demery and Stefano Paternostro: Reforms,
Remoteness and Risk in Africa: Understanding Inequality and Poverty during the 1990s
(PDF 281KB)
DP2003/67 Ruslan Yemtsov: Quo Vadis? Inequality
and Poverty Dynamics across Russian Regions (PDF 439KB)
DP2003/65 Michael Förster, David Jesuit and Timothy Smeeding: Regional
Poverty and Income Inequality in Central and Eastern Europe: Evidence from the Luxembourg
Income Study (PDF 251KB)
DP2003/57 Jed Friedman: How
Responsive is Poverty to Growth? A Regional Analysis of Poverty, Inequality, and Growth in
Indonesia, 1984-99 (PDF 655KB)
DP2003/36 Krćn Blume, Björn Gustafsson, Peder J. Pedersen and
Mette Verner: A
Tale of Two Countries: Poverty among Immigrants in Denmark and Sweden since 1984
(PDF 242KB)
DP2003/25 Kym Anderson: Trade
Liberalization, Agriculture, and Poverty in Low-income Countries (PDF 224KB)
DP2003/08 Stefan Dercon and John Hoddinott: Health, Shocks and
Poverty Persistence (PDF 156KB)
DP2002/121 Cecilia Ugaz: Consumer
Participation and Pro-Poor Regulation in Latin America (PDF
180KB)
DP2002/58 Gisele Kamanou and Jonathan Morduch: Measuring
Vulnerability to Poverty (PDF 285KB)
DP2002/53 Tilat Anwar: Unsustainable Debt
Burden and Poverty in Pakistan: A Case for Enhanced HIPC Initiative (PDF 239KB)
DP2002/52 Era Dabla-Norris, John M. Matoovu, and Paul Wade: Debt Relief, Demand
for Eduction, and Poverty (PDF 257KB)
DP2002/43 Andrew McKay: Assessing the
Impact of Fiscal Policy on Poverty (PDF 207KB)
DP2002/37 Christiana E.E. Okojie: Gender and
Education as Determinants of Household Poverty in Nigeria (PDF
337KB)
DP2002/33 Steve Kayizzi-Mugerwa: Fiscal Policy,
Growth and Poverty Reduction in Uganda (PDF 152KB)
DP2002/17 Tilat Anwar: Impact of
Globalization and Liberalization on Growth, Employment and Poverty: A Case Study of
Pakistan (PDF 231KB)
DP2002/24 Christopher B. Barrett, Stein Holden and Daniel C. Clay: Can-Food-for-Work
Programmes Reduce Vulnerability? (PDF 316KB)
DP2002/23 Jerry Skees, Panos Varangis, Donald Larson and Paul
Siegel: Can
Financial Markets be Tapped to Help Poor People Cope with Weather Risks? (PDF 297KB)
DP2002/22 Stefan Dercon: Income Risk, Coping
Strategies and Safety Nets (PDF 335KB)
DP2002/21 Rasmus Heltberg: The Poverty
Elasticity of Growth (PDF 229KB)
DP2002/20 Peter G. Warr: Poverty
Incidence and Sectoral Growth: Evidence from Southeast Asia (PDF
204KB)
DP2002/19 George Fane and Peter Warr: How Economic
Growth Reduces Poverty: A General Equilibrium Analysis for Indonesia (PDF 1441KB)
DP2002/15 M.H. Suryanarayana: Poverty in
India: Misspecified Policies and Estimates (PDF 273KB)
DP2002/05 Hulya Dagdeviren, Rolph van der Hoeven and John Weeks: Redistribution
Does Matter Growth and Redistribution for Poverty Reduction (PDF
655KB)
DP2002/04 Oliver Morrissey: Making Debt
Relief Conditionality Pro-Poor (PDF 236KB)
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