Vietnam has built a remarkable record of economic growth and poverty reduction over the last two decades. Using a poverty line set in the 1990s and since updated, Vietnam’s poverty rate fell from 58 percent...
This report examines the lives of poor men, women, and children and explores the constraints and opportunities they face today in rising out of poverty. It builds on a rich body of poverty analysis and...
This report examines the lives of poor men, women, and children and explores the constraints and opportunities they face today in rising out of poverty. It builds on a rich body of poverty analysis and...
Vietnam is implementing a long run reform agenda for the power sector, with the aim of restructuring the sector to improve internal operations, efficiency, and the quality of services. The World Bank has...
This paper takes stock of the World Bank's risk and vulnerability analysis from FY2000 to FY2007. It complements recent assessments of Social Protection and Labor (SP&L) sector's lending and analytic activities...
What happened to poverty in India in the 1990s has been fiercely debated, both politically and statistically. The debate has run parallel to the wider debate about globalization and poverty in the 1990s...
This issue includes the following: globalization, poverty, and inequality since 1980 by David Dollar; data and dogma: the great Indian poverty debate by Angus Deaton and Valerie Kozel; insights on development...
This paper reviews the theory and evidence on the consequences of high fertility in Pakistan. In addition, several data sets are analyzed to examine the effects the number of children have on school participation...
The findings presented in this paper provide useful information about the link between poverty and productive activities in the Cote d'Ivoire. The major findings are : 1) roughly one third of private income...
The paper examines the structure of urban labor markets in Pakistan, focusing in particular on wage formation and returns to education for male workers. Empirical work is based on a survey of 1,000 low...