Does democracy improve the quality of life for its citizens? Scholars have long assumed that
it does, but recent research has called this orthodoxy into question. This article reviews this …

Saving promotion interventions have gained momentum in international development in
recent years. Our analysis investigates whether saving promotion can effectively increase …

This article traces a methodological path for constructing a statistically and normatively
validated assets indicator, that in turn can be used within an internationally comparable …

Multidimensional poverty measurement and analysis is evolving rapidly. A particular
counting approach to multidimensional poverty measurement, developed by Sabina Alkire …

Using data from India, we estimate the relationship between household wealth and
children's school enrollment. We proxy wealth by constructing a linear index from asset …

288 for women, feeding frequency, immunization, and quality of substitute caretakers.
Among the developing-country regions, South Asia's particularly high child malnutrition rate …

This paper presents the International Wealth Index (IWI), the first comparable asset based
index of household's material well-being, or economic status, that can be used for all low …

We consider an asset‐based alternative to the standard use of expenditures in defining well‐
being and poverty. Our motivation is to see if there exist simpler and less demanding ways to …

The publication of this book is in large part due to the role of Canada's Inter national
Development Research Center (IDRC) in encouraging policy-relevant research in the fields …

The use of asset indices in welfare analysis and poverty targeting is increasing, especially in
cases in which data on expenditures are unavailable or hard to collect. We compare …