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The International Poverty Centre (IPC) publishes regularly Working Papers, Magazines, Policy Research Briefs, Country Studies and One Pagers to to encourage policy debate and dissemination of knowledge on key poverty topics. If you are interested in receiving the following publications by email, please click here

Note that IPC has also started publishing special series of Conference Papers, Technical Papers, and Training Modules.

In Focus

In Focus is an online bulletin of the International Poverty Centre. Its purpose is to present succinctly the results of recent research on poverty and inequality in the developing world.

       
 
January 2004  

 

Policy Research Brief

The Policy Research Brief is a new four-page easily readable IPC publication that presents major policy lessons drawn from our research in a particular area.


Privatising Basic Utilities in Sub-Saharan Africa: The MDG Impact
Kate Bayliss and Terry McKinley. Policy Research Brief # 3. January 2007.

The Unresolved Land Reform Debate: Beyond State-Led or Market-Led Models
Saturnino M. Borras Jr. and Terry McKinley. Policy Research Brief # 2. November 2006.

The Macroeconomic Debate on Scaling up HIV/AIDS Financing
Terry McKinley and Degol Hailu. Policy Research Brief # 1. September 2006.

 

Country Study

Country Studies published by the International Poverty Centre are a new category inaugurated in 2006 in order to highlight major policy lessons derived from a series of UNDP-supported national reports focused on poverty-related and MDG-related issues. To see full background reports, click here.


Expanding the Social Security Net in South Africa: Opportunities, Challenges and Constraints
Kalie Pauw and Liberty Mncube. Country Study # 8. July 2007.

The Impact of Growth and Redistribution on Poverty and Inequality in South Africa
Kalie Pauw and Liberty Mncube. Country Study # 7. 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.

Does Debt Relief Increase Fiscal Space in Zambia? The MDG Implications
John Weeks and Terry McKinley. Country Study # 5. September 2006.
For full Report : Zambia

Strengthening the Employment Impact of an MDG-Based Development Strategy for Yemen
Terry McKinley and Farhad Mehran. Country Study # 4. September 2006.
For full Report: Yemen

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

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

An employment-targeted economic programme for South Africa
Robert Pollin, Gerald Epstein, James Heintz, and Léonce Ndikumana. Country Study # 1. June 2006.
For full Report : South Africa

 


Working Papers

The Working Paper series disseminates findings from work in progress to encourage policy debate and help consolidate good poverty reduction practices. The papers are signed by the authors and should be cited and referred accordingly.

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 Soares, Rafael Guerreiro Osório, Fabio Veras Soares, Marcelo Medeiros and Eduardo Zepeda. Working Paper # 35. April 2007.

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

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

The Post-Apartheid Evolution of Earnings Inequality in South Africa, 1995-2004
Phillippe G. Leite, Terry McKinley and Rafael Guerreiro Osorio. Working Paper # 32. October 2006.

Global Estimates of Pro-Poor Growth
Hyun H. Son and Nanak Kakwani. Working Paper # 31. October 2006.

Operational Poverty Targeting In Peru – Proxy Means Testing With Non-Income Indicators
Julia Johannsen. Working Paper # 30. October 2006.

New Global Poverty Counts
Nanak Kakwani and Hyun H. Son. Working Paper # 29. September 2006.

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

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

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

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

Addressing Global Imbalances: A Development-Oriented Policy Agenda
Alex Izurieta and Terry McKinley. Working Paper # 23. July 2006.

Can Privatisation and Commercialisation of Public Services Help Achieve The MDGs? An Assessment
Kate Bayliss and Tim Kessler. Working Paper # 22. July 2006.

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

Poverty among women in Latin America: Feminization or over-representation?
Marcelo Medeiros and Joana Costa. Working Paper # 20. May 2006.

How costly is it to achieve the Millennium Development Goal of halving poverty between 1990 and 2015?
Nanak Kakwani and Hyun H. Son. Working Paper # 19. May 2006.

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

Gearing macroeconomic polices to manage large inflows of ODA: The implications for HIV/AIDS programmes
Anis Chowdhury with Terry McKinley. Working Paper # 17. May 2006.

Cash benefits to disabled persons in Brazil: An analysis of the BPC – Continuous Cash Benefit Programme
Marcelo Medeiros, Debora Diniz and Flávia Squinca.
Working Paper # 16. May 2006.

Assessing the pro-poorness of government fiscal policy in Thailand
Hyun H. Son. Working Paper # 15. April 2006.

Covariates of efficiency in education production among developing pacific-basin and Latin American countries
Sergei Soares and Emanuela di Gropello.
Working Paper # 14. April 2006.

A Capability centred approach to environmental sustainability: Is productive employment the missing link between micro-and macro polices?
Enrique Delamonica and Santosh Mehrotra.
Working Paper # 13. April 2006.

The monopoly of global capital flows: Who needs structural adjustment now?
Terry McKinley. Working Paper # 12. March 2006.

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

Why is ‘The Dutch disease’ always a disease? the macroeconomic consequences of scaling up ODA
Terry McKinley. Working Paper # 10. November 2005.

Conditional cash transfers in African countries
Nanak Kakwani, Fábio Veras Soares and Hyun H. Son.
Working Paper # 9. November 2005.

Ageing and poverty in africa and the role of social pensions
Nanak Kakwani and Kalanidhi Subbarao.
Working Paper # 8. August 2005.

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

On assessing pro-poorness of government programmes:international comparisons
Nanak Kakwani and Hyun H. Son. Working Paper # 6. May 2005.

Reorienting development: towards and engendered employment strategy
Selim Jahan. Working Paper # 5. February 2005.

Relative prices and investment: an essay on resource allocation
Keith Griffin. Working Paper # 4. January 2005.

The MDGs and pro-poor polices: related but not synonymous
Jan Vandemoortele. Working Paper # 3. November 2004.

Economic growth and poverty reduction: initial conditions matter
Hyun H. Son and Nanak Kakwani. Working Paper # 2. August 2004.

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

 

One Pager

The One Pager is an online publication aiming to raise awareness on technical issues of poverty measurement and policies for poverty reduction among a wide audience. It is written in non-technical language and will hopefully generate public debate. Click here to view the guidelines for One Pager.

Correcting Global Imbalances with Exchange Rate Realignment? No thanks!
Francis Cripps, Alex Izurieta and Terry McKinley. One Pager # 38. 2007.

Using ODA to Accumulate Foreign Reserves in Sub-Saharan Africa
Costas Lapavitsas. One Pager # 37. 2007.

Can all Cash Transfers Reduce Inequality?
Sergei Soares and Eduardo Zepeda. One Pager # 36. 2007.

The IMF and Constraints on Spending Aid
David Goldsbrough. One Pager # 35. 2007.

Why Is Africa Constrained from Spending ODA?
Terry McKinley. One Pager # 34. 2007.

MDG Targets: Misunderstood or Misconceived?
Hamid Tabatabai. One Pager # 33. 2007.

Debating the Provision of Basic Utilities in Sub-Saharan Africa: a Response to Nellis
Kate Bayliss and Ben Fine. One Pager # 32. 2007.

Privatising Basic Utilities in Africa: a Rejoinder
John Nellis. One Pager # 31. 2007.

The Gross Inequities of Global Imbalances
Terry McKinley and Alex Izurieta. One Pager # 30. 2007.

Why Not ‘Front-load’ ODA for HIV/Aids?
John Serieux and Terry McKinley. One Pager # 29. 2007.

MDGs: Misunderstood Targets?
Jan Vandemoortele. One Pager # 28. 2007.

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

What is poverty? Good Question
Terry McKinley. One Pager # 26. 2006.

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

Are Improving Terms of Trade Helping Reduce Poverty in Africa?
Andrew Mold. One Pager # 24. 2006.

Inequality and the Education MDG for Latin America
Eduardo Zepeda. One Pager # 23. 2006.

What is Poverty?
Nanak Kakwani. One Pager # 22. 2006.

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

The Gender Pay Gap over Women’s Working Lifetime
Hyun H. Son and Nanak Kakwani. One Pager # 20. 2006.

Women’s earning power and wellbeing
Nanak Kakwani and Hyun H. Son. One Pager # 19. 2006.

Headcount Poverty Comparisons
S. Subramanian. One Pager # 18. 2005.

Three models of social protection
Alejandro Grinspun. One Pager # 17. 2005.

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

Leaky Bucket
Nanak Kakwani and Hyun H. Son. One Pager # 15. 2005.

Vietnam: Jobs, Growth & Poverty
Hyun H. Son. One Pager # 14. 2005.

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

Ending world poverty: is the debate settled?
Jan Vandemoortele. One Pager # 12. 2005.

The challenge of pro-poor growth in Uganda
Barbara Barungi and Eduardo Zepeda. One Pager # 11. 2005.

Birth control and poverty in South America
Marcelo Medeiros. One Pager # 10. 2005.

Defining pro-poor growth
Siddiq Osmani. One Pager # 9. 2005.

Measuring poverty: what’s in the line?
Alejandro Grinspun. One Pager # 8. 2004.

Slipping into poverty: a neglected issue in anti-poverty strategies.
M. H. Suryanarayana. One Pager # 7. 2004.

Pro-poor growth: finding the Holy Grail
Alejandro Grinspun. One Pager # 6. 2004.

Generic or brand drugs for HIV-AIDS? Southern Africa examples
Francisco Rossi. One Pager # 5. 2004.

Defining pro-poor growth: a response to Kakwani
Martin Ravallion. One Pager # 4. 2004.

Conditional Cash Transfer: a vaccine against poverty and inequality?
Fabio Veras Soares. One Pager # 3. 2004.

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

Pro-poor growth: what is it?
Eduardo Zepeda. One Pager # 1. 2004.

Conference Papers

Scaling-up HIV/AIDS Financing and the Role of Macroeconomic Policies in Kenya
Degol Hailu. Conference Paper # 4. June 2007. The Fiscal Implications of Scaling up ODA to Deal with the HIV/AIDS Pandemic
Bernard Walters. Conference Paper # 3. May 2007. Monetary Policies for an MDG-Related Scaling up of ODA to Combat HIV/AIDS:Avoiding Dutch Disease Versus Supporting Fiscal Expansion
Matías Vernengo. Conference Paper # 2. March 2007.

Managing the Exchange Rate Consequences of an MDG-Related Scale-up in HIV/AIDS Financing
John Serieux . Conference Paper # 1. March 2007.

Technical Papers

Developing a Global Model for Trade, Finance and Income Distribution
Francis Cripps, Alex Izurieta and Terry McKinley. Technical Paper # 1. February 2007.

Training Modules

Monetary Policy
Alfredo Saad Filho. Training Module # 2. July 2007.

Fiscal Policy
John Weeks and Shruti Patel. Training Module # 1. July 2007.

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