Inequalities and development: dysfunctions, traps, and transitions by Anthony J. Bebbington, Anis A. Dani, Arjan de Haan, and Michael Walton. Asset inequality and agricultural growth: how are patterns of asset inequality established and reproduced? By Rachel Sabates. Beneath the categories:...

In 2002, half of Mexico's population lived in poverty and one fifth in extreme poverty, slightly lower than before the 1994-1995 crisis. Mexico has made major progress in some poverty dimensions -health, nutrition and education outcomes, access to basic health and education services,...

Questions of equity and inequality have moved to the center of debates on development and poverty reduction. This reflects growing awareness that even countries with high rates of growth can experience stagnating or increasing inequality, and that inequality can itself limit the poverty reducing...

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- VOICES OF THE POOR -- Chapter 1 Listening to the Voices of the Poor -- Chapter 2 Definitions of Poverty -- Chapter 3 State Institutions -- Chapter 4 Civil Society Institutions -- Chapter 5 Changing Gender Relations in the Household -- Chapter 6...