SSRN World Bank: Poverty (Topic)

1.

Growth Without Governance

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2928

Number of pages: 60 Posted: 20 Jul 2002

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Daniel Kaufmann and Aart Kraay

Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)

Downloads 4,461

2.

Measuring Education Inequality: Gini Coefficients of Education

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2525

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 29 Jan 2001

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Vinod Thomas, Yan Wang and Xibo Fan

World Bank - Brazil, Peking University and The World Bank

Downloads 2,461

3.

The Effects of Infrastructure Development on Growth and Income Distribution

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3400

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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César A. Calderón and Luis Servén

Central Bank of Chile and World Bank - Office of the Chief Economist

Downloads 2,264

4.

Trade, Growth, and Poverty

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2615

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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David Dollar and Aart Kraay

World Bank - Development Economics Group (DEC) and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 2,150

5.

Measuring Empowerment in Practice: Structuring Analysis and Framing Indicators

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3510

Number of pages: 123 Posted: 10 Feb 2005

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Ruth Alsop and Nina Heinsohn

World Bank and World Bank

Downloads 2,052

6.

Scaling-Up Microfinance for India's Rural Poor

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3646

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 25 Jul 2005

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Priya Basu and Pradeep Srivastava

World Bank Group - Finance and Private Sector Division (WBIFP) and National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER)

Downloads 1,725

7.

Social Capital, Household Welfare, and Poverty in Indonesia

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2148

Number of pages: 79 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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Christian Grootaert

World Bank - Social Development

Downloads 1,717

8.

Does Micro-Credit Empower Women? Evidence from Bangladesh

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2998

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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Mark M. Pitt, Shahidur R. Khandker and Jennifer Cartwright

Brown University, World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG) and World Bank

Downloads 1,708

9.

Sustainability of Microfinance Self Help Groups in India: Would Federating Help?

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3516

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 09 Feb 2005

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Ajai Nair

World Bank

Downloads 1,707

10.

Micro-Finance and Poverty: Evidence Using Panel Data from Bangladesh

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2945

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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Shahidur R. Khandker

World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)

Downloads 1,686

11.

Pro-Poor Growth: A Primer

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3242

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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Martin Ravallion

Georgetown University

Downloads 1,556

12.

Growth is Good for the Poor

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2587

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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David Dollar and Aart Kraay

World Bank - Development Economics Group (DEC) and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)

Downloads 1,492

13.

Poverty, Education, and Health in Indonesia: Who Benefits from Public Spending?

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2739

Number of pages: 63 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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Peter F. Lanjouw, Menno Prasad Pradhan, Fadia Saadah, Haneen Sayed and Robert A. Sparrow

World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG), VU University Amsterdam - Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, World Bank - East Asia and Pacific Region, World Bank and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Downloads 1,456

14.

Decentralization: The Way Forward for Rural Development?

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 1475

Number of pages: 60 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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Andrew N. Parker

World Bank

Downloads 1,446

15.

Small and Medium Enterprises, Growth, and Poverty: Cross-Country Evidence

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3178

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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Asli Demirgüç-Kunt, Thorsten Beck and Ross Levine

World Bank - Development Research Group, City University London - Sir John Cass Business School and UC Berkeley

Downloads 1,423

16.

Promoting Innovation in Developing Countries: A Conceptual Framework

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3554

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 12 May 2005

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Jean-Eric Aubert

World Bank

Downloads 1,383

17.

Achieving the Millennium Development Goals: The Role of Infrastructure

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3163

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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Danny Leipziger, Marianne Fay, Quentin T. Wodon and Tito Yepes

World Bank, World Bank, World Bank and World Bank

Downloads 1,301

18.

The Mystery of the Vanishing Benefits: Ms. Speedy Analyst's Introduction to Evaluation

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2153

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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Martin Ravallion

Georgetown University

Downloads 1,267

19.

China's (Uneven) Progress Against Poverty

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3408

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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Martin Ravallion and Shaohua Chen

Georgetown University and World Bank

Downloads 1,265

20.

Rural Finance for Growth and Poverty Alleviation

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 1593

Number of pages: 76 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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Saeed Qureshi, Ijaz Nabi and Rashid Faruqee

World Bank - South Asia Region, World Bank and World Bank

Downloads 1,234

21.

Fiscal Decentralization in Developing and Transition Economies: Progress, Problems, and the Promise

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3282

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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Anwar Shah

World Bank

Downloads 1,175

22.

Evaluating the Impact of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs: Lessons from Latin America

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3119

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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Laura B. Rawlings and Gloria Rubio

World Bank - Latin America & the Caribbean Region and University of the Americas, Puebla

Downloads 1,163

23.

Remittances, Household Expenditure and Investment in Guatemala

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3532

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 01 Apr 2005

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Richard H. Adams, Jr.

World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)

Downloads 1,162

24.

Foreign Direct Investment and Poverty Reduction

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2613

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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Michael U. Klein, Carl Aaron and Bita Hadjimichael

Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, East West Management Institute, Washington DC and World Bank

Downloads 1,024

25.

China's Growth and Poverty Reduction: Recent Trends Between 1990 and 1999

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2651

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 26 Sep 2001

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Shaohua Chen and Yan Wang

World Bank and Peking University

Downloads 1,009

26.

Can We Discern the Effect of Globalization on Income Distribution? Evidence from Household Budget Surveys

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2876

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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Branko Milanovic

World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)

Downloads 1,002

27.

Asset Distribution, Inequality, and Growth

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2375

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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Klaus Deininger and Pedro Olinto

World Bank - Development Economics Group (DEC) and World Bank

Downloads 961

28.

The Scaling-Up of Microfinance in Bangladesh: Determinants, Impact, and Lessons

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3398

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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Hassan Zaman

World Bank

Downloads 939

29.

Is a Guaranteed Living Wage a Good Anti-Poverty Policy?

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3640

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 23 Jul 2005

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Rinku Murgai and Martin Ravallion

World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG) and Georgetown University

Downloads 921

30.

The Long-Run Economic Costs of AIDS: Theory and an Application to South Africa

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3152

Number of pages: 116 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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Clive Bell, Shantayanan Devarajan and Hans Gersbach

University of Heidelberg - South Asia Institute (SAI), World Bank Middle East and North Africa Region and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, (CER-ETH)

Downloads 919

31.

Toward Better Regulation of Private Pension Funds

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 1791

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 31 Jul 1997

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Hemant C. Shah

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Downloads 918

32.

Pricing Irrigation Water: A Literature Survey

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2449

Number of pages: 7 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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Robert Johansson

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Economic Research Service (ERS)

Downloads 903

33.

When Is Growth Pro-Poor? Evidence from the Diverse Experiences of India's States

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2263

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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Martin Ravallion and Gaurav Datt

Georgetown University and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)

Downloads 887

34.

Issues in Measuring and Modeling Poverty

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 1615

Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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Martin Ravallion

Georgetown University

Downloads 830

35.

The Impact of Minimum Wages on Employment in a Low Income Country: An Evaluation Using the Difference-in-Differences Approach

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2985

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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Vivi Alatas and Lisa A. Cameron

World Bank - Jakarta and University of Melbourne - Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research

Downloads 811

36.

Land Rights and Economic Development: Evidence from Vietnam

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3120

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 30 Dec 2004

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Quy-Toan Do and Lakshmi Iyer

World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics

Downloads 808

37.

Reform, Growth, and Poverty in Vietnam

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2837

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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David Dollar

World Bank - Development Economics Group (DEC)

Downloads 790

38.

Malnutrition and Poverty in Guatemala

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2967

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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Alessandra Marini and Michele Gragnolati

World Bank and World Bank - Latin America and Caribbean Region

Downloads 783

39.

Ex-ante Evaluation of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs: The Case of Bolsa Escola

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2916; William Davidson Institute Working Paper No. 516

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 16 Feb 2003

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Francois Bourguignon, Francisco H. G. Ferreira and Phillippe G. Leite

Paris School of Economics, World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG) and World Bank - Research Department

Downloads 773

40.

Remittances and Poverty in Guatemala

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3418

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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Richard H. Adams, Jr.

World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)

Downloads 756

41.

Religious School Enrollment in Pakistan: A Look at the Data

KSG Working Paper No. RWP05-024; World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3521

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 16 Feb 2005

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Tahir Andrabi, Jishnu Das, Asim Ijaz Khwaja and Tristan Zajonc

Pomona College - Department of Economics, World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG), Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)

Downloads 743

42.

Health and Poverty in Guatemala

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2966

Number of pages: 65 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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Michele Gragnolati and Alessandra Marini

World Bank - Latin America and Caribbean Region and World Bank

Downloads 734

43.

Energy Price Increases in Developing Countries: Case Studies of Colombia, Ghana, Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey, and Zimbabwe

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 1442

Number of pages: 98 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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Einar Hope

Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) - Department of Economics

Downloads 732

44.

What Determines the Quality of Institutions?

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2764

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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Roumeen Islam and Claudio E. Montenegro

World Bank and World Bank Group

Downloads 730

45.

Ethnic Minority Development in Vietnam: A Socioeconomic Perspective

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2836

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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Bob Baulch, Dominique Haughton, Jonathan Haughton and Truong Thi Kim Chuyen

University of Sussex - Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Bentley University - Department of Mathematical Sciences and Global Studies, Suffolk University - Department of Economics and Vietnam National University of Ho Chi Minh City - Department of Geography

Downloads 728

46.

Inequality is Bad for the Poor

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3677

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 19 Aug 2005

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Martin Ravallion

Georgetown University

Downloads 701

47.

Belief Systems and Durable Inequalities: An Experimental Investigation of Indian Caste

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3351

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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Karla Hoff and Priyank Pandey

World Bank - Development Economics Group (DEC) and affiliation not provided to SSRN

Downloads 693

48.

Access to Financial Services: A Review of the Issues and Public Policy Objectives

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3589

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 20 Jun 2005

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Stijn Claessens

Bank for International Settlements

Downloads 678

49.

Poverty, Inequality, and Social Policy in Transition Economies

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 1530

Number of pages: 64 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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Branko Milanovic

World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)

Downloads 675

50.

Growth and Poverty in Rural India

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 1405

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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Martin Ravallion and Gaurav Datt

Georgetown University and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)

Downloads 671

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