This site describes ongoing and planned activities, as well as providing documentation on completed work, with links to closely related activities at the World Bank. The document "Looking Beyond Averages" describes the various components of the program. This research program on Poverty and Inequality aims to: - improve current data and methods of poverty and inequality analysis, including greater standardization of household survey data, and making data more accessible to users, and
- use the improved data and existing data sources to better understand pro-poor growth and why some growth processes have more impact on poverty than others.
Research Manager: Peter Lanjouw Research Highlights 2007  | Investing Back Home: Return Migration and Business Ownership in Albania
March 6, 2008, Calogero Carletto,Talip Kilic, Benjamin Davis, and Alberto Zezza
Recent research indicates Albanian households with higher exposure to past migration experience are more likely to invest in a small business upon the completion of their “migration cycle.” Both the destination and timing of migration play a role in determining investment decisions: as households with migrants that traveled to countries beyond neighboring Greece in the earlier waves of migration in the 1990s have a significantly higher likelihood of owning a small business. Full Text
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|  | Local Inequality and Project Cost
March 2008, Caridad Arauijo, Francisco Ferreira, Peter Lanjouw, and Berk Özler
Elites can significantly affect the outcomes of participatory processes, even those that are carefully designed. Full Text Work Related Migration and Poverty Reduction
March 2008, Michael Lokshin, Mikhail Bontch-Osmolovski, and Elena Glinkaya
Migration and remittances are key factors in reducing poverty in Nepal - and are likely to remain so. Full Text |
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