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 …

We estimate the effect of a large rural workfare program in India on private employment and
wages by comparing trends in districts that received the program earlier relative to those that …

What considerations lead policymakers to invest in agricultural extension as a key public
responsibility, and what factors and agency incentives explain differences in extension …

While research has demonstrated that farm households in developing economies are able
to protect consumption from idiosyncratic crop shocks, little evidence shows how this is …

Safety nets are noncontributory transfer programs targeted to the poor or vulnerable. They
play important roles in social policy. Safety nets redistribute income, thereby immediately …

An analysis of the National Sample Survey data for 2009-10 confirms expectations that
poorer states of India have more demand for work under the Mahatma Gandhi National …

We apply recent advances in propensity-score matching (PSM) to the problem of estimating
the distribution of net income gains from an Argentinean workfare program. PSM has a …

Globalization is already a powerful force for poverty reduction as societies and economies
around the world are becoming more integrated. Although this international integration …