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Development economics is a branch of economics that deals with economic aspects of the development process in low- and middle- income countries. Its focus...

economist Mahbub ul-Haq in 1990, and had the explicit purpose "to shift the focus of development economics from national income accounting to people-centered...

Measure and the Human Poverty Index. There are not only a global Human Development Reports but there are also regional and national reports. The Regional...

a wide range of development indicators, and the prevalence of extreme multidimensional poverty in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. The new report also...

a major contributor to development economics, asserted that economic development grew to concentrate on the poor regions of the world, primarily in Africa...

processes. The main poverty line used in the OECD and the European Union is a relative poverty measure based on 60% of the median household income. The United...

currently serving as the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)...

The basic needs approach is one of the major approaches to the measurement of absolute poverty in developing countries globally. It works to define the...

reduce global poverty" Their key contribution to economics is the usage of randomized controlled trials (RCT) in development economics. Abhijit Banerjee...

global problems such as poverty, disease, hunger, climate change, war, existential risks, and inequality. It is a project of the Global Change Data Lab...

well-being of peoples. Sen wrote the influential book Development as Freedom which added an important ethical side to development economics. Development...

Theories on the causes of poverty are the foundation upon which poverty reduction strategies are based. While in developed nations poverty is often seen...

non-linear income taxation for the alleviation of income poverty. Washington, D.C.: Office of Vice President, Development Economics, The World Bank. OCLC 62773687...

developing countries and some areas of more developed countries, energy poverty is lack of access to modern energy services in the home. In 2022, 759 million people...

In economics, a cycle of poverty or poverty trap is when poverty seems to be inherited causing subsequent generations to not be able to escape it. It is...

abject poverty, including through income supplements and unemployment relief. Poverty is characterized by lack of at least one freedom (Sen uses the term...

Description: examines the last 30 years of development economics, viewed through the World Bank's World Development Reports. The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities...

The Poverty of "Development Economics" is a 1983 book by Deepak Lal. Adam Szirmai notes that this book "summarised and popularised much of the earlier...

joint supervisor of Duflo's PhD in economics at MIT in 1999. Duflo is also a professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at MIT. Scholia...

The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) is part of the United Nations University (UNU). UNU-WIDER...