1. Understanding Poverty

Documents & Reports

Showing 1 - 19 of 19 results | Display results in sets of 10 | 20 | 50

Download:
Sort By:
No Records Found. Change your search criteria and try again. I cannot find the document I am looking for.

  • Quantifying vulnerability to poverty - a proposed measure, applied to Indonesia (English)

    Vulnerability is an important aspect of households' experience of poverty. Many households, while not currently in poverty, recognize that they are vulnerable to events - a bad harvest, a lost job, an...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS2437 Document Date: September 30, 2000 Disclosure Status: Author: Pritchett, Lant,Suryahadi, Asep,Sumarto, Sudarno

  • Assessing aid - what works, what doesn't, and why (English)

    This report assesses foreign aid, pointing out that aid is as much a matter of knowledge as it is about money. It discusses the continuing role of financial transfers from rich to poor countries, despite...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 18295 Document Date: November 30, 1998 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Dollar, David,Pritchett, Lant

  • Assessing aid - what works, what doesn't, and why (Vietnamese)

    This report assesses foreign aid, pointing out that aid is as much a matter of knowledge as it is about money. It discusses the continuing role of financial transfers from rich to poor countries, despite...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 18295 Document Date: November 30, 1998 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Dollar, David,Pritchett, Lant

  • Health policy in poor countries : weak links in the chain (English)

    The authors show how the recent empirical and theoretical literature on health policy sheds light on the disappointing experience with the implementation of primary health care. They emphasize the evidence...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS1874 Document Date: January 31, 1998 Disclosure Status: Author: Filmer, Deon,Hammer,Jeffrey S.,Pritchett, Lant

  • Gender disparity in South Asia : comparisons between and within countries (English)

    Using data assembled from the Demographic Health Surveys of over 50 countries and from the National Family Health Surveys of individual states in India, the authors create a new data set of comparable...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS1867 Document Date: January 31, 1998 Disclosure Status: Author: Filmer, Deon,King, Elizabeth M.,Pritchett, Lant

  • Child mortality and public spending on health : how much does money matter? (English)

    The authors use cross-national data to examine the impact on child (under 5) and infant mortality of both nonhealth (economic, cultural, and educational) factors and public spending on health. They come...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS1864 Document Date: December 31, 1997 Disclosure Status: Author: Filmer, Deon,Pritchett, Lant

  • Cents and sociability : household income and social capital in rural Tanzania (English)

    The authors construct a measure of "social capital" in rural Tanzania, using data from the Tanzania Social Capital and Poverty Survey (SCPS), a large-scale survey that asked individuals about the extent...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS1796 Document Date: June 30, 1997 Disclosure Status: Author: Narayan, Deepa,Pritchett, Lant

  • Where in the world is population growth bad? (English)

    Would economic growth be better if population growth were slower? There are two apparently opposite answers to this question. Advocates of policies to reduce population growth rates are completely convinced...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS1391 Document Date: December 31, 1994 Disclosure Status: Author: Kling, Jeff,Pritchett, Lant

  • Tariff rates, tariff revenue, and tariff reform : some new facts (English)

    The ad valorem tariff rates on specific products and the ratio of tariff revenue to import value, the collected rate, are only tenuously related, contend the authors. Using tariff and revenue data (at...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS1143 Document Date: May 31, 1993 Disclosure Status: Author: Pritchett, Lant,Sethi, Geeta

  • Import demand in developing countries (English)

    As a less restrictive trade regime is associated with greater responsiveness to economic incentives, econometric evidence that does not allow for the impact of import controls cannot be used reliably to...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS122 Document Date: November 30, 1988 Disclosure Status: Author: Faini, Riccardo,Pritchett, Lant,Clavijo, Fernand