The transition from Millennium Development Goals to Sustainable Development Goals has substantially shifted the policy debate from development to inclusive development. Using interactive quantile regressions, we examine the correlations between mobile banking and inclusive development (quality of growth, inequality and poverty) among individuals in 93 developing countries for the year 2011. Mob...

Population ageing is unfolding in developing countries at a much faster rate than it did in developed countries, while poverty, inequality and poor governance constrain public policy responses. There is an urgent need to understand the processes at work and to design and implement appropriate public policy. The paper reviews the contribution that new survey evidence for developing countries is ...

Many children younger than 5 years in developing countries are exposed to multiple risks, including poverty, malnutrition, poor health, and unstimulating home environments, which detrimentally affect their cognitive, motor, and social-emotional development. There are few national statistics on the development of young children in developing countries. We therefore identified two factors with av...

In recent times, many countries, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, have been left puzzled by their failure to improve nutritional outcomes despite prolonged periods of rapid economic growth, in some cases accompanied by rising incomes among the poor. The Tanzanian economy is one example of a country that failed to reap the benefits of sustained rapid growth. National gross ...

It is often suggested that regional integration is good for poverty by increasing trade and investment and creating jobs for the poor. At the same time, the number and scope of regional trade agreements is increasing rapidly. However, there is little about whether and how regional integration provisions affect development and poverty in poor countries. The findings of a multi-country research p...

Defining poverty requires a way of distinguishing the poor from the non-poor. The usual method is to classify an individual as poor, if he or she does not meet a set of consumption norms. The poverty lines used are generally based on the cost of a fixed bundle of goods deemed necessary for subsistence mostly on nutritional grounds. The use of upper poverty line $370, gives an estimate of 1115 m...

Innovations for Poverty Action applies rigorous research techniques to develop and test solutions to real-world problems faced by the poor in developing countries. Contributions to this research made by a member of The Financial Access Initiative and Innovations for Poverty Action.

Discussion on improving our knowledge of changes in global poverty and inequality focused on three main questions. First, should international comparisons of living standards across countries use PPP estimates, or market exchange rates to compare the purchasing power of citizens in different countries? Second, if PPP estimates are used, is a single national measure of aggregate PPP adequate to ...