United Nations Development Programme

International Poverty Centre



Publications by Country and Region

Below you will find IPC publications listed by Country and Region.


Countries: Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, China, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Ghana, Honduras, India, Kenya, Korea (Republic of), Lebanon, Mexico, Moldova, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, South Africa, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, and Uzbekistan.

Regions: Arab States, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and the CIS, Latin America and the Caribbean, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Global.



Countries

Bolivia

Are Estimates of Poverty in Latin America Reliable?
Sanjay G. Reddy. One Pager # 52. May 2008.

Gender Inequalities in Allocating Time to Paid and Unpaid Work: Evidence from Bolivia
Marcelo Medeiros, Rafael Guerreiro Osório and Joana Costa. Working Paper # 34. April 2007.

Brazil

Are Estimates of Poverty in Latin America Reliable?
Sanjay G. Reddy. One Pager # 52. May 2008.

Alternatives for Projecting MDG Indicators
Rafael Guerreiro Osório. Technical Paper # 2. April 2008.

Transferências Condicionadas de Renda (TCR) Reduzem a Pobreza?
Eduardo Zepeda. One Pager # 21. April 2008.

¿Los CCTs Reducen la Pobreza?
Eduardo Zepeda. One Pager # 21. April 2008.

Do Changes in the Labour Market Take Families out of Poverty? Determinants of Exiting Poverty in Brazilian Metropolitan Regions
Ana Flávia Machado and Rafael Perez Ribas. Working Paper # 44. February 2008.

Is all Socioeconomic Inequality among Racial Groups in Brazil Caused by Racial Discrimination?
Rafael Guerreiro Osório. Working Paper # 43. February 2008.

Avaliando o Impacto do Programa Bolsa Família: Uma Comparação com Programas de Transferência Condicionada de Renda de outros Países
Fabio Veras Soares, Rafael Perez Ribas and Rafael Guerreiro Osório. Evaluation Note # 1. December 2007.

Evaluating the Impact of Brazil’s Bolsa Família: Cash Transfer Programmes in Comparative Perspective
Fabio Veras Soares, Rafael Perez Ribas and Rafael Guerreiro Osório. Evaluation Note # 1. December 2007.

Growth, Poverty and Employment in Brazil, Chile and Mexico
Eduardo Zepeda, Diana Alarcón, Fabio Veras Soares and Rafael Guerreiro Osório. Working Paper # 42. December 2007.

The Impact of Relative Prices on Welfare and Inequality in Brazil, 1995-2005
Sergei Suarez Dillon Soares and Rafael Guerreiro Osório. Working Paper # 37. May 2007.

Distinguishing Chronic Poverty from Transient Poverty in Brazil: Developing a Model for Pseudo-Panel Data
Rafael Perez Ribas and Ana Flávia Machado . Working Paper # 36. April 2007.

Conditional Cash Transfers in Brazil, Chile and Mexico: Impacts upon Inequality
Sergei Suarez Dillon Soares, Rafael Guerreiro Osório, Fabio Veras Soares, Marcelo Medeiros and Eduardo Zepeda. Working Paper # 35. April 2007.

Has there been any Social Mobility for Non-Whites in Brazil?
Rafael Guerreiro Osório. One Pager # 27. January 2007.

Measuring the Impact of Price Changes on Poverty
Hyun H. Son and Nanak Kakwani. Working Paper # 33. November 2006.

A note on measuring unemployment
Nanak Kakwani and Hyun H. Son. Working Paper # 28. September 2006.

Linkages between Pro-Poor Growth, Social Programmes and Labour Market: The Recent Brazilian Experience
Nanak Kakwani, Marcelo Neri and Hyun H. Son. Working Paper # 26. August 2006.

Cash Transfer Programmes in Brazil: Impacts on Inequality and Poverty
Fabio Veras Soares, Sergei Suarez Dillon Soares, Marcelo Medeiros and Rafael Guerreiro Osório. Working Paper # 21. June 2006.

Poverty, inequality and redistribution: A methodology to define the rich
Marcelo Medeiros. Working Paper # 18. May 2006.

The impact of trade liberalisation on the informal sector in Brazil
Fabio Veras Soares. Working Paper # 7. June 2005.

Chile

Avaliando o Impacto do Programa Bolsa Família: Uma Comparação com Programas de Transferência Condicionada de Renda de outros Países
Fabio Veras Soares, Rafael Perez Ribas and Rafael Guerreiro Osório. Evaluation Note # 1. December 2007.

Evaluating the Impact of Brazil’s Bolsa Família: Cash Transfer Programmes in Comparative Perspective
Fabio Veras Soares, Rafael Perez Ribas and Rafael Guerreiro Osório. Evaluation Note # 1. December 2007.

Growth, Poverty and Employment in Brazil, Chile and Mexico
Eduardo Zepeda, Diana Alarcón, Fabio Veras Soares and Rafael Guerreiro Osório. Working Paper # 42. December 2007.

Conditional Cash Transfers in Brazil, Chile and Mexico: Impacts upon Inequality
Sergei Suarez Dillon Soares, Rafael Guerreiro Osório, Fabio Veras Soares, Marcelo Medeiros and Eduardo Zepeda. Working Paper # 35. April 2007.

China

Chinese Poverty: Assessing the Impact of Alternative Assumptions
Sanjay G. Reddy and Camelia Minoiu. Working Paper # 25. July 2006.

Chinese Boxes: whatever happened to poverty reduction?
Alejandro Grinspun. One Pager # 13. April 2005.

El Salvador

Are Estimates of Poverty in Latin America Reliable?
Sanjay G. Reddy. One Pager # 52. May 2008.

Alternatives for Projecting MDG Indicators
Rafael Guerreiro Osório. Technical Paper # 2. April 2008.

Encarando las Limitaciones en la Capacidad para Transferencias Monetarias Condicionadas en Latinoamerica: Los Casos de El Salvador y Paraguay
Fabio Veras Soares and Tatiana Britto. Working Paper # 38. January 2008.

The Challenges of El Salvador’s Conditional Cash Transfer Programme, Red Solidaria
Tatiana Britto. Country Study # 9. September 2007.

Confronting Capacity Constraints on Conditional Cash Transfers in Latin America: the cases of El Salvador and Paraguay
Fabio Veras Soares and Tatiana Britto. Working Paper # 38. August 2007.

Ethiopia

The Impact of Foreign Aid on Government Spending, Revenue and Domestic Borrowing in Ethiopia
Pedro M. G. Martins. Working Paper # 41. November 2007.

The Fiscal Impact of Aid Flows: Evidence from Ethiopia
Pedro M. G. Martins. One Pager # 43. September 2007.

Should Khat Be Banned? The Development Impact
Degol Hailu. One Pager # 40. July 2007.

Ghana

Monetary Policy and Financial Sector Reform for Employment Creation and Poverty Reduction in Ghana
Gerald Epstein and James Heintz. Country Study # 2. June 2006.

Honduras

Assessing Honduras’ CCT Programme PRAF, Programa de Asignación Familiar: Expected and Unexpected Realities
Charity Moore. Country Study # 15. April 2008.

India

Do CCTs Reduce Poverty?
Eduardo Zepeda. One Pager # 21. September 2006.

India needs an Employment Guarantee Scheme
Santosh Mehrotra. One Pager # 16. August 2005.

Methods in measuring poverty matter: an Indian story.
Nanak Kakwani. One Pager # 2. September 2004.

Kenya

Wage Cutting in Kenya Will Expand Poverty, Not Decent Jobs
Robert Pollin, Mwangi we Githinji and James Heintz. One Pager # 46. December 2007.

Addressing the Employment-Poverty Nexus in Kenya: Comparing Cash-Transfer and Job-Creation Programmes
Eduardo Zepeda. Working Paper # 40. October 2007.

Job Creation versus Cash Transfers in Kenya
Eduardo Zepeda. One Pager # 41. August 2007.

Scaling-up HIV/AIDS Financing and the Role of Macroeconomic Policies in Kenya
Degol Hailu. Conference Paper # 4. June 2007.

Expanding Decent Employment in Kenya: The Role of Monetary Policy, Inflation Control, and the Exchange Rate
Robert Pollin and James Heintz. Country Study # 6. March 2007.

Old-Age Poverty and Social Pensions in Kenya
Hyun H. Son and Nanak Kakwani. One Pager # 25. November 2006.

Poverty, Old-Age and Social Pensions in Kenya
Nanak Kakwani, Hyun H. Son and Richard Hinz. Working Paper # 24. July 2006.

Korea, Republic of

Measuring the impact of prices on inequality: with applications to Thailand and Korea
Hyun H. Son and Nanak Kakwani. Working Paper # 11. January 2006.

Pro-poor growth: concepts and measurement with country case studies
Nanak Kakwani, Shahid Khandker and Hyun H. Son. Working Paper # 1. August 2004.

Lebanon

Poverty, Growth and Income Distribution in Lebanon
Heba El Laithy, Khalid Abu-Ismail and Kamal Hamdan. Country Study # 13. January 2008.

Mexico

¿Los CCTs Reducen la Pobreza?
Eduardo Zepeda. One Pager # 21. April 2008.

Transferências Condicionadas de Renda (TCR) Reduzem a Pobreza?
Eduardo Zepeda. One Pager # 21. April 2008.

Evaluating the Impact of Brazil’s Bolsa Família: Cash Transfer Programmes in Comparative Perspective
Fabio Veras Soares, Rafael Perez Ribas and Rafael Guerreiro Osório. Evaluation Note # 1. December 2007.

Avaliando o Impacto do Programa Bolsa Família: Uma Comparação com Programas de Transferência Condicionada de Renda de outros Países
Fabio Veras Soares, Rafael Perez Ribas and Rafael Guerreiro Osório. Evaluation Note # 1. December 2007.

Growth, Poverty and Employment in Brazil, Chile and Mexico
Eduardo Zepeda, Diana Alarcón, Fabio Veras Soares and Rafael Guerreiro Osório. Working Paper # 42. December 2007.

Conditional Cash Transfers in Brazil, Chile and Mexico: Impacts upon Inequality
Sergei Suarez Dillon Soares, Rafael Guerreiro Osório, Fabio Veras Soares, Marcelo Medeiros and Eduardo Zepeda. Working Paper # 35. April 2007.

Moldova

Moldova’s Middle-Income ‘Mistaken Identity’: The Severe Income and Human Development Costs
John Weeks. Country Study # 11. October 2007.

Gearing Public Finance to Growth, Employment and Poverty Reduction in Moldova
Terry McKinley. Country Study # 3. July 2006.

Mozambique

Growth, Poverty and Inequality in Mozambique
Pekka Virtanen and Dag Ehrenpreis. Country Study # 10. September 2007.

Nicaragua

Alternatives for Projecting MDG Indicators
Rafael Guerreiro Osório. Technical Paper # 2. April 2008.

Inter-country Comparisons of Poverty Based on a Capability Approach: An Empirical Exercise
Sanjay G. Reddy, Sujata Visaria and Muhammad Asali. Working Paper # 27. August 2006.