Documents & Reports
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Perspectives on poverty in India : stylized facts from survey data (Vol. 1 of 2) : Main report (English)
This report's objective is to develop the evidence base for policy making in relation to poverty reduction. It produces a diagnosis of the broad nature of the poverty problem and its trends in India, focusing...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 57428 Document Date: April 13, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Crost,Benjamin,Das,Jishnu,Das,Maitreyi B,Datt,Gaurav,Deaton,Angus S.,Dercon,Stefan,Dubey,Amaresh,Dutta,Puja Vasudeva,Hall,Gillette H.,Himanshu,Rai,Jaison,Shiny,Joddar,Pinaki,Mehta,Soumya Kapoor,Kapur, Davesh,Krutikova, Sonya,Lanjouw,Peter F.,May,Ernesto,Murgai,Rinku,Nikitin,Denis,Pigato,Miria A.,Rascon Ramirez,Ericka G.,Ravallion,Martin,Sadoulet,Elisabeth Marie L.,Soni,Rita,Sriram,Jyoti,Vishwanath,Tara,Witsoe,Jeffrey Lawrence,Yoshida,Nobuo,Zagha,N. Roberto,De Janvry,Alain F.
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Poverty and social exclusion in India (Vol. 1 of 2) : Main report (English)
The report is organized around three chapters, in addition to this overview, each one dealing with an excluded group: Scheduled Tribe (ST), Scheduled Caste (SC), and women. The objective is to provide...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 61314 Document Date: April 12, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Badda,John Prakash,Burra,Neera,Cooper,Gertrude,Das, Maitreyi Bordia,Desai,Sonalde,Dubey,Amaresh,Dutta,Puja Vasudeva,Hall,Gillette H.,Iversen,Vegard,Joddar,Pinaki,Johnson,Kiersten Blair,Kalwij, Adriaan,Mehta,Soumya Kapoor,Kebede, Bereket,Lanjouw,Peter F.,Murgai,Rinku,Nikitin,Denis,Noon, James,Pradhan,Sujata Jayant,Rashid,Mansoora,Sharif,Iffath Anwar,Talukdar,Tanusree,Vanneman, Reeve,Verschoor, Arjan,Witsoe,Jeffrey Lawrence,Zagha,N. Roberto
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India's adivasis (English)
India is widely considered a success story in terms of growth and poverty reduction. In just over two decades, national poverty rates have fallen by more than 20 percentage points, from 45.6 percent in...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 64764 Document Date: January 1, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Das, Maitreyi Bordia,Hall,Gillette H.,Mehta,Soumya Kapoor,Nikitin,Denis
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Perspectives on poverty in India : stylized facts from survey data (Vol. 2 of 2) : Overview (English)
This report's objective is to develop the evidence base for policy making in relation to poverty reduction. It produces a diagnosis of the broad nature of the poverty problem and its trends in India, focusing...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 57428 Document Date: January 1, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Crost,Benjamin,Das,Jishnu,Das,Maitreyi B,Datt,Gaurav,Deaton,Angus S.,Dercon,Stefan,Dubey,Amaresh,Dutta,Puja Vasudeva,Hall,Gillette H.,Himanshu,Rai,Jaison,Shiny,Joddar,Pinaki,Mehta,Soumya Kapoor,Kapur, Davesh,Krutikova, Sonya,Lanjouw,Peter F.,May,Ernesto,Murgai,Rinku,Nikitin,Denis,Pigato,Miria A.,Rascon Ramirez,Ericka G.,Ravallion,Martin,Sadoulet,Elisabeth Marie L.,Soni,Rita,Sriram,Jyoti,Vishwanath,Tara,Witsoe,Jeffrey Lawrence,Yoshida,Nobuo,Zagha,N. Roberto,De Janvry,Alain F.
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Poverty and social exclusion in India (Vol. 2 of 2) : Overview (English)
The report is organized around three chapters, in addition to this overview, each one dealing with an excluded group: Scheduled Tribe (ST), Scheduled Caste (SC), and women. The objective is to provide...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 61314 Document Date: January 1, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Badda,John Prakash,Burra,Neera,Cooper,Gertrude,Das, Maitreyi Bordia,Desai,Sonalde,Dubey,Amaresh,Dutta,Puja Vasudeva,Hall,Gillette H.,Iversen,Vegard,Joddar,Pinaki,Johnson,Kiersten Blair,Kalwij, Adriaan,Mehta,Soumya Kapoor,Kebede, Bereket,Lanjouw,Peter F.,Murgai,Rinku,Nikitin,Denis,Noon, James,Pradhan,Sujata Jayant,Rashid,Mansoora,Sharif,Iffath Anwar,Talukdar,Tanusree,Vanneman, Reeve,Verschoor, Arjan,Witsoe,Jeffrey Lawrence,Zagha,N. Roberto
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Pueblos indigenas, pobreza y desarrollo humano en America Latina (Spanish)
This study analyzes the general situation and main political changes with regard to indigenous peoples in Latin America; more specifically the countries of: Bolivia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico and Peru...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 38612 Document Date: January 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Hall,Gillette H.,Patrinos,Harry Anthony
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Indigenous Peoples, Poverty and Human Development in Latin America: 1994-2004 - executive summary (English)
This report covers the five countries in Latin America with the largest indigenous populations, which include Bolivia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, and Peru. The purpose of this report is to answer whether...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 33020 Document Date: December 31, 2004 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Hall,Gillette H.,Patrinos,Harry Anthony
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Indigenous Peoples, Poverty and Human Development in Latin America: 1994-2004 - executive summary : Enaturalib' taq tinamit, meb'a'il xuquje' winaqil k'iyem pa America Latina : 1994 - 2004 (Kiche (Mayan language))
This report covers the five countries in Latin America with the largest indigenous populations, which include Bolivia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, and Peru. The purpose of this report is to answer whether...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 33020 Document Date: December 31, 2004 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Hall,Gillette H.,Patrinos,Harry Anthony
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Indigenous Peoples, Poverty and Human Development in Latin America: 1994-2004 - executive summary : Pueblos indigenas, pobreza y desarrollo humano en America Latina : 1994-2004 (Spanish)
This report covers the five countries in Latin America with the largest indigenous populations, which include Bolivia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, and Peru. The purpose of this report is to answer whether...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 33020 Document Date: December 31, 2004 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Hall,Gillette H.,Patrinos,Harry Anthony
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Mexico : Southern states development strategy (English)
The Southern States Development Strategy was undertaken in 2002 at the request of the Mexican government. It builds on the 2001 World Bank Report "Mexico, a Comprehensive Development Agenda for the New...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 31116 Document Date: October 20, 2003 Author: Hall,Gillette H.,Humphrey,Christopher S.
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Mexico : Southern states development strategy : Estrategia de desarrollo de los estados del sur de Mexico (Spanish)
The Southern States Development Strategy was undertaken in 2002 at the request of the Mexican government. It builds on the 2001 World Bank Report "Mexico, a Comprehensive Development Agenda for the New...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 31116 Document Date: September 1, 2003 Author: Hall,Gillette H.,Humphrey,Christopher S.
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Vietnam in transition : new evidence on growth and poverty (English)
Vietnam's development over the past decade represents one of the more dramatic turnarounds in economic history. In the mid-80s the country was in dire straits. Ten years later - after a radical set or...
Document Type: Newsletter Report No.: 18330 Document Date: June 30, 1998 Author: Hall,Gillette H.
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Poverty and inequality during unorthodox adjustment : the case of Peru, 1985-90 : Pobreza y desigualdad durante un ajuste heterodoxo : el caso del Peru, 1985 a 1990 (Spanish)
This paper examines the change in poverty and inequality in Lima, Peru between 1985 - 86 and 1990. The data employed are from the 1985 - 86 and 1990 Living Standards Measurement Surveys. The results are...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: LSM86 Document Date: October 1, 1992 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Glewwe,Paul W.,Hall,Gillette H.
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Poverty and inequality during unorthodox adjustment : the case of Peru, 1985-90 (English)
This paper examines the change in poverty and inequality in Lima, Peru between 1985 - 86 and 1990. The data employed are from the 1985 - 86 and 1990 Living Standards Measurement Surveys. The results are...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: LSM86 Document Date: February 29, 1992 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Glewwe,Paul W.,Hall,Gillette H.