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provides an introduction to key issues as well as in-depth information on poverty measurement, monitoring, analysis, and on poverty reduction strategies for researchers and practitioners.

TOPICS  

Square bulletAchieving Shared GrowthSquare bulletEmpowerment
Square bulletPoverty AnalysisSquare bulletEmployment & Shared Growth
Square bulletPoverty MappingSquare bulletMigration and Development
Square bulletPoverty MonitoringSquare bulletMoving Out of Poverty
Square bulletImpact EvaluationSquare bulletSocial Capital
Square bulletPoverty & Social Impact Analysis (PSIA)Square bullet Poverty and Health
Square bulletPoverty Reduction StrategiesSquare bulletSafety Nets and Transfers

CONFERENCES
April 21-25, 2008 – PREM Learning Week 2008

April 15, 2008  Climate Change, Growth and Poverty

January 15-16, 2008 – 
Making Smart Policy: Using Impact Evaluation for Policy Making

UPDATES
September 26, 2008 - Board presentations of PRSP documents
August 26, 2008 – New Poverty Estimates
August 25, 2008 – Good Practice Note: Using PSIA to Support Development Policy Operations

PUBLICATIONS
 
Data Against Natural Disasters: Establishing Effective Systems for Relief, Recovery, and Reconstruction Data Against Natural Disasters: Establishing Effective Systems for Relief, Recovery, and Reconstruction — This volume contains six case studies of initiatives to improve information management during the various phases—risk reduction, relief, early recovery, and recovery and reconstruction—in the response to disaster.
Are You Being Served? New Tools for Measuring Service DeliveryAre You Being Served? New Tools for Measuring Service Delivery — This volume provides an overview of a range of tools for measuring service delivery and offers valuable lessons on the opportunities and constraints practitioners face in measuring performance.
Moving Out of Poverty: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on MobilityMoving Out of Poverty: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Mobility — This volume explores the topic of poor people’s mobility from the perspectives of diverse analytic traditions, country contexts and time horizons.
More than a Pretty Picture: Using Poverty Maps to Design Better Policies and InterventionsMore than a Pretty Picture: Using Poverty Maps to Design Better Policies and Interventions — This volume aims to promote the effective use of Small Area Estimation poverty maps in policy making. It presents the range of policies and interventions which have been informed by poverty maps, focusing on the political economy of poverty maps and the key elements to their effective use by policy makers.
Minding the GapsMinding the Gaps: Integrating Poverty Reduction Strategies and Budgets for Domestic Accountability — This study, based on case studies in nine low-income countries and a review of relevant experience in four higher-income countries, offers practical insights for donors and national governments on how to strengthen the links between poverty reduction strategies and budgets.
Delivering on the Promise of Pro-Poor Growth: Insights and Lessons from Country-ExperienceDelivering on the Promise of Pro-Poor Growth: Insights and Lessons from Country-Experience — This study contributes to the debate on how to accelerate poverty reduction by providing insights from eight countries that have been relatively successful in delivering pro-poor growth: Bangladesh, Brazil, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Tunisia, Uganda, and Vietnam.
Beyond the Numbers: Understanding the Institutions for Monitoring Poverty Reduction StrategiesBeyond the Numbers: Understanding the Institutions for Monitoring Poverty Reduction Strategies — This volume provides lessons on the design and functioning of monitoring systems based on the experience of twelve PRS countries.

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Features

New Poverty Estimates
Rising Food Prices Threaten Poverty Reduction
A User's Guide to Poverty and Social Impact Analysis
ADePT: Automated DEC Poverty Tables 
Culture and Public Action

Empowerment and Poverty Reduction: A Sourcebook

Evaluating the Impact of Development Projects on Poverty: A Handbook for Practitioners
OED: 2004 Annual Review of Development Effectiveness - The World Bank's Contributions to Poverty Reduction

Partnerships in Development: Progress in the Fight Against Poverty (3.35mb PDF)

Poverty Reduction Strategy Sourcebook
Power, Rights, and Poverty: Concepts and Connections (842kb PDF)
Voices of the Poor

WDR 2000/2001: Attacking Poverty

 

Related World Bank Websites

 
 
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Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network

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Events

Jun 11, 2009Development with Responsibility and Accountability: A Dialogue with the World Bank Group
May 27, 2009Uppsala - Presentation of a World Bank Study : Moving Out of Poverty — Success from the bottom up
   
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News

Jun 09, 2009Tanzania: Seventh Poverty Reduction Support Credit
Jun 09, 2009Argentina: Basic Protection Project
   
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