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Outlines how to rethink society's economic, political, and social institutions and actions to take to build better societies.

Investigates the methodology of international poverty projections, particularly those used in many World Bank documents.

Administrative and data- collection costs, individual responses to target interventions, and considerations of political economy make it difficult to establish workable procedures for fine targeting of spending to alleviate poverty. Self- targeting and targeting by indicators offer more advantages than other approaches.

The design of nutrition interventions can be very susceptible to the level of aggregation of available information.

Within the framework of intrahousehold bargaining, it is argued that (1) targeting of transfers to disadvantaged members of the household is important, (2) structural adjustment that favors cash crops over food crops may end up worsening intrahousehold inequality, and (3) as households become better- off, intrahousehold inequality may first increase and then decrease (in other words, there may exist a Kuznets curve for intrahousehold inequality).

This is a collection of essays from leading public intellectuals that identifies major conceptual problems in the analysis of poverty and inequality and advances strategies for reducing poverty and inequality that are consistent with these new conceptual and methodological approaches.

Here is a start at linking the literatures on targeting and on intrahousehold inequality which have developed rapidly but largely independent of each other.