The Knowledge Bank and poverty reduction

Nora Lustig

No 209, Working Papers from ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality

Abstract: The World Bank’s (WB) mission and overarching goal is to reduce poverty. Moving ahead, what can the WB do to enhance its contribution to the poverty reduction agenda? This question can be answered from at least two perspectives: the WB as a lending institution and the WB as a knowledge bank. Here we will concentrate on the latter and suggest two areas in which more and better information and analysis could help move the poverty reduction agenda forward: improving data on poverty and redressing poverty assessments to include the impact of fiscal policy on poverty and inequality.

Keywords: poverty; World Bank. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 D33 G29 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 2011
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