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The International Poverty Centre (IPC) intends to publish regularly an online bulletin and working papers to encourage policy debate and dissemination of knowledge on key poverty topics. If you are interested in receiving the following publications by email, please click here

In Focus

In Focus is an online bulletin of the International Poverty Centre. Its purpose is to present succinctly the results of recent research on poverty and inequality in the developing world.


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Working Papers

The Working Paper series disseminates the findings of work in progress in order to encourage exchange of ideas about development issues. The papers are signed by the authors and should be cited and referred accordingly.

"Pro-poor growth: concepts and measurement with country case studies"
Nanak Kakwani, Shahid Khandker and Hyun H. Son. Working Paper # 1.August 2004.

"Economic growth and poverty reduction: initial conditions matter"
Hyun H. Son and Nanak Kakwani. Working Paper # 2. August 2004.

"The MDGs and pro-poor polices: related but not synonymous"
Jan Vandemoortele. Working Paper # 3. November 2004.

"Relative prices and investment: an essay on resource allocation"
Keith Griffin. Working Paper # 4. January 2005.

"Reorienting development: towards and engendered employment strategy"
Selim Jahan. Working Paper # 5. February 2005.

"On assessing pro-poorness of government programmes:international comparisons"
Nanak Kakwani and Hyun H. Son. Working Paper # 6. May 2005.

"The impact of trade liberalisation on the informal sector in Brazil"
Fábio Veras Soares. Working Paper # 7. June 2005.

"Ageing and poverty in africa and the role of social pensions"
Nanak Kakwani and Kalanidhi Subbarao. Working Paper # 8. August 2005.

"Conditional cash transfers in African countries"
Nanak Kakwani, Fábio Veras Soares and Hyun H. Son. Working Paper # 9. November 2005.

"Why is ‘The Dutch disease’ always a disease? the macroeconomic consequences of scaling up ODA"
Terry McKinley. Working Paper # 10. November 2005.

"Measuring the impact of prices on inequality: with applications to Thailand and Korea "
Hyun H. Son and Nanak Kakwani. Working Paper # 11. January 2006.

"The monopoly of global capital flows: Who needs structural adjustment now?"
Terry McKinley. Working Paper # 12. March 2006.

"A Capability centred approach to environmental sustainability: Is productive employment the missing link between micro-and macro polices?"
Enrique Delamonica and Santosh Mehrotra. Working Paper # 13. April 2006.

One Pager

The One Pager is an on-line publication aiming to raise awareness on technical issues of poverty measurement and polices among a wide audience. It is written in non-technical language and will hopefully generate public debate. Three issues of the One pager will be produced every month. Click here to view the guidelines for One Pager.

"Pro-poor growth: what is it?"
Eduardo Zepeda. One Pager # 1. 2004.

"Methods in measuring poverty matter: an Indian story."
Nanak Kakwani. One Pager # 2. 2004.

"Conditional Cash Transfer: a vaccine against poverty and inequality?."
Fabio Veras Soares. One Pager # 3. 2004.

"Defining pro-poor growth: a response to Kakwani."
Martin Ravallion. One Pager # 4. 2004.

"Generic or brand drugs for HIV-AIDS? Southern Africa examples."
Francisco Rossi. One Pager # 5. 2004.

"Pro-poor growth: finding the Holy Grail."
Alejandro Grinspun. One Pager # 6. 2004.

"Slipping into poverty: a neglected issue in anti-poverty strategies."
M. H. Suryanarayana. One Pager # 7. 2004.

"Measuring poverty: what’s in the line?"
Alejandro Grinspun. One Pager # 8. 2004.

"Defining pro-poor growth."
Siddiq Osmani. One Pager # 9. 2005.

"Birth control and poverty in South America"
Marcelo Medeiros. One Pager # 10. 2005.

"The challenge of pro-poor growth in Uganda"
Barbara Barungi and Eduardo Zepeda. One Pager # 11. 2005.

"Ending world poverty: is the debate settled?"
Jan Vandemoortele. One Pager # 12. 2005.

"Chinese Boxes: whatever happened to poverty reduction?"
Alejandro Grinspun. One Pager # 13. 2005.

"Vietnam: Jobs, Growth & Poverty"
Hyun H. Son. One Pager # 14. 2005.

"Leaky Bucket"
Nanak Kakwan and Hyun H. Son. One Pager # 15. 2005.

"India needs an Employment Guarantee Scheme"
Santosh Mehrotra. One Pager # 16. 2005.

"Three models of social protection"
Alejandro Grinspun. One Pager # 17. 2005.

"Headcount Poverty Comparisons"
S. Subramanian. One Pager # 18. 2005.

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