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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.

Panel data sets show that a lucky few bucked the general trend of economic decline in Côte d'Ivoire -- that among the poorest of the poor, some actually improved their standard of living, despite a great increase in the incidence of poverty.

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

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