Drawing on a database of more than one hundred anti-poverty interventions in 47
countries,'Targeting of Transfers in Developing Countries' provides a general review of …

Publisher Summary The structure, efficiency, and growth of production affect (and are
affected by) the distribution of consumption. Poverty analysis has three tasks:(1) to define …

There are fewer people living in extreme poverty in the world today than 30 years ago. While
that is an achievement, continuing progress for poor people is far from assured. Inequalities …

Proxy-means tests (PMTs) are popular for poverty-targeting with imperfect information. In a
widely-used version, a regression for log consumption calibrates a PMT score based on …

The connections between economic growth (EG) and human development (HD) form two
chains. Crosscountry regressions show a significant relationship in both directions, with …

TRANSITION ECONOMIES Page 1 TRANSITION ECONOMIES POLITICAL ECONOMY IN
RUSSIA, EASTERN EUROPE, AND CENTRAL ASIA Martin Myant Jan Drahokoupil WILEY …

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 …

For much of its history, social policy has involved choices about whether the core principle
behind social provisioning will be “universalism”, or selectivity through “targeting”. Under …

The rapid spread of large-scale and innovative social transfers in the developing world has
made a key contribution to the significant reduction in global poverty over the last decade …

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