Asset inequality matters: an assessment of the World Bank's approach to poverty reduction

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The World Bank's essential role is to fight poverty and improve the lives of the poor, as evidenced by the bank's continued implementation of policies concerning poverty reduction. In the 1960's and 1970's World Bank has done a number of research studies directing on labor-market and rural development issues, population, education and health in developing countries. Although the bank's focus in the 1980's was mainly directed on adjustment issues, continued research on growth and poverty remained.

Social aspects, Social policy, Latin America, Cost and standard of living, Cost of living

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Some income-measurement issues and their policy implications

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Measurement procedures were conceptually flawed for three major categories of nonpecuniary income. The categories examined include noncash benefits for lower-income households and for the elderly, and the imputed rent of owner-occupied housing. The trends in income, poverty, inequality, and the composition of the poverty population were measured consistently, thus, showing the consistency and professionalism of the Census Bureau's practices.

Bureau of the Census, Management, United States economic conditions, United States. Bureau of the Census, Income

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Project analysis and the World Bank

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The World Bank is the only major international financial institution to conduct professional project evaluation since the late 1940s. The World Bank's implementation of its procedure for economic evaluation of development projects is only partially successful. However, the World Bank's project evaluation practice enormously improved investment management as well as the economic impact of these investments in developing countries.

Economic policy, Economic assistance, Foreign economic assistance, International finance

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