Financial IssuesCategory: Resources
Dimensions Magazine: Promoting Multidimensional Poverty Measures
WHAT IS DIMENSIONS MAGAZINE? Poverty is a phenomenon that goes far beyond income poverty and, as such, must be understood and measured in all its complexity. A group of countries has taken the initiative in this way of viewing poverty and has established the Multidimensional Poverty Peer Network (MPPN). Te MPPN is a network of…
PovcalNet: an online poverty analysis tool
Link: http://iresearch.worldbank.org/PovcalNet/index.htm?0 PovcalNet is an interactive computational tool that allows you to replicate the calculations made by the World Bank’s researchers in estimating the extent of absolute poverty in the world. PovcalNet also allows you to calculate the poverty measures under different assumptions and to assemble the estimates using alternative country groupings or for any…
From Protection to Production (PtoP) Exploring the linkages and strengthening coordination between social protection and rural development
File: PDF icon ptop_short_description_11feb14.pdf File Created On: July, 2015 Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) The From Protection to Production (PtoP) project is a multi-country impact evaluation of cash transfers in sub-Saharan Africa. The project is a collaborative effort between the FAO, the UNICEF Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office and the governments of…
MDG Success Springboard for New Sustainable Development Agenda: UN Report
File: PDF icon odm_final_report.pdf External Link: News File Created On: July, 2015 Latin America and the Caribbean continue to show impressive gains in many areas, although disparities exist between the sub-regions. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have produced the most successful anti-poverty movement in history and will serve as the jumping-off point for the new sustainable development agenda…
COLOMBIA – Red Unidos (Unidos Network), National policy for the eradication of extreme poverty
File: colombia_red_unidos.pptx File Created On: October, 2013 Topics: Financial Inclusion, Income Generation & Employment, Social Interest Housing, Gender, Differential Approach to Ethnic Groups Type of Resource: Presentation
Costa Rica: Conditional Cash Transfer Programs—AVANCEMOS
File: PDF icon costa_rica_-_programa_avancemos_eng.pdf File Created On: August, 2013 Member country affiliation: Costa Rica Sectors: Education Topics: Conditional Cash Transfers Keywords: poverty reduction