The paper presents the main approaches, and tools to measuring poverty, and vulnerability. This involves among other things, the important issues of the setting of poverty lines, of the statistical use of surveys, of the empirical measurement of living standards, and of making poverty...

It is important to know how aggregate economic growth or contraction was distributed according to initial levels of living. In particular, to what extent can it be said that growth was"pro-poor?"There are problems with past methods of addressing this question, notably that the measures used are...

This paper reviews some early interim and full PRSPs for countries with which the authors worked during 1999-2000 (Uganda, Burkina Faso, Tanzania, Mozambique, Mali and The Gambia). The purpose of the review is to compare and contrast how the PRSP process was established there. It finds that...

The author identifies conditions under which the urban sector's share of the poor population in a developing country will be a strictly increasing and strictly convex function of its share of the total population. Cross-sectional data afor 39 countries and time-series data for for India are...

Esta presentación fue comisionada por la Red de Reducción de la Pobreza y Protección Social del Diálogo Regional de Política para la II Reunión Hemisférica celebrada los días 10 y 11 de diciembre de 2001. Antecedentes. Datos de Bolivia. Reformas. Diálogo Nacional 1997. Resultados en 15...

This paper describes "Nicaragua's Strengthened Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy" (SGPRS). It reflects years of studies, hard-earned experience, and a deepening consultative process.

A continuación se presentan algunos materiales acerca de la vida y obra del Sr. Vilmar Faría, como un homenaje a su memoria. Este documento está compuesto de una semblanza de su vida y dos entrevistas en las cuales Vilmar expuso algunas de sus ideas acerca del desarrollo y la reducción de la...