poverty in developing countries. The rhetoric of donors suggests that this insight has increasingly shaped the allocation of … donors provide higher aid to relatively poor countries, but so far the fight against poverty has not resulted in a stronger … focus on recipient countries with particularly high incidence of absolute poverty. Many donors failed to direct aid …

This paper provides an account of the evolution of poverty and inequality during adjustment in Bolivia, covering the … period 1985–99. It turns out that urban poverty declined somewhat after the initial stabilization phase that followed the … hyperinflation in 1985. A similar evolution of per capita income suggests a positive impact of growth on urban poverty, although the …

services sector is split up into formal and informal activities to account for the fact that poverty is largely confined to the …