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IPC - Publications

The International Poverty Centre (IPC) intends to publish regularly an online bulletin, working papers, country studies, online publications 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.

 

Country Study

Country Studies published by the International Poverty Centre are a new category inaugurated in 2006 in order to highlight major policy lessons derived from a series of UNDP-supported national reports focused on poverty-related and MDG-related issues.


"Gearing Public Finance to Growth, Employment and Poverty Reduction in Moldova"
Terry McKinley. Country Study # 3. July 2006.

"Monetary Policy and Financial Sector Reform for Employment Creation and Poverty Reduction in Ghana"
Gerald Epstein and James Heintz. Country Study # 2. June 2006.

"An employment-targeted economic programme for South Africa"
Robert Pollin, Gerald Epstein, James Heintz, and Léonce Ndikumana. Country Study # 1. June 2006.

 


Working Papers

The Working Paper series disseminates findings from work in progress to encourage policy debate and help consolidate good poverty reduction practices. The papers are signed by the authors and should be cited and referred accordingly.


"Inter-country Comparisons of Poverty Based on a Capability Approach: An Empirical Exercise."
Sanjay Reddy, Sujata Visaria and Muhammad Asali. Working Paper # 27. August 2006.

"Linkages between Pro-Poor Growth, Social Programmes and Labour Market: The Recent Brazilian Experience."
Nanak Kakwani, Marcelo Neri and Hyun H. Son. Working Paper # 26. August 2006.

"Chinese Poverty: Assessing the Impact of Alternative Assumptions."
Sanjay G. Reddy and Camelia Minoiu. Working Paper # 25. July 2006.

"Poverty, Old-Age and Social Pensions in Kenya."
Nanak Kakwani, Hyun H. Son and Richard Hinz. Working Paper # 24. July 2006.

"Addressing Global Imbalances: A Development-Oriented Policy Agenda."
Alex Izurieta and Terry McKinley. Working Paper # 23. July 2006.

"Can Privatisation and Commercialisation of Public Services Help Achieve The MDGs? An Assessment."
Kate Bayliss and Tim Kessler. Working Paper # 22. July 2006.

"Cash Transfer Programmes in Brazil: Impacts on Inequality and Poverty."
Fabio Veras Soares, Sergei Soares, Marcelo Medeiros and Rafael Guerreiro Osório. Working Paper # 21. June 2006.

"Poverty among women in Latin America: Feminization or over-representation?"
Marcelo Medeiros and Joana Costa. Working Paper # 20. May 2006.

"How costly is it to achieve the Millennium Development Goal of halving poverty between 1990 and 2015?"
Nanak Kakwani and Hyun H. Son. Working Paper # 19. May 2006.

"Poverty, inequality and redistribution: A methodology to define the rich"
Marcelo Medeiros. Working Paper # 18. May 2006.

"Gearing macroeconomic polices to manage large inflows of ODA: The implications for HIV/AIDS programmes"
Anis Chowdhury with Terry McKinley. Working Paper # 17. May 2006.

"Cash benefits to disabled persons in Brazil: An analysis of the BPC – Continuous Cash Benefit Programme"
Marcelo Medeiros, Debora Diniz and Flávia Squinca.
Working Paper # 16. May 2006.

"Assessing the pro-poorness of government fiscal policy in Thailand"
Hyun H. Son. Working Paper # 15. April 2006.

"Covariates of efficiency in education production among developing pacific-basin and Latin American countries"
Sergei Soares and Emanuela di Gropello.
Working Paper # 14. April 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


One Pager

The One Pager is an online publication aiming to raise awareness on technical issues of poverty measurement and policies for poverty reduction among a wide audience. It is written in non-technical language and will hopefully generate public debate. Click here to view the guidelines for One Pager.


The Gender Pay Gap over Women’s Working Lifetime
Hyun H. Son and Nanak Kakwani. One Pager # 20. 2006.

"Women’s earning power and wellbeing"
Nanak Kakwani and Hyun H. Son. One Pager # 19. 2006.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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