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April 17, 2012
Americas
Can 80 Percent of Mexicans be Poor? The Debate over Poverty
A recent study highlighted in La Jornada, a Mexican newspaper, claims that some ninety million Mexicans are poor, roughly 80 percent of the total population. This contrasts drastically with calculati…
February 11, 2016
India
Five Questions on Evaluating Progress to End Poverty with Dean Karlan
This post features a conversation with Dean Karlan, professor of economics at Yale University, president and founder of Innovations for Poverty Action, and founder of ImpactMatters, a newly-launched …
August 7, 2013
Development
Eliminating Poverty and Hunger By Empowering Women
Food security and hunger eradication are international priorities because of their indisputable positive impact on development goals, local and regional economies, and social stability. Yet despite g…
December 6, 2012
Development
New From CFR: Foreign Affairs on Poverty in India
A review by Andrew Nathan in the November/December Foreign Affairs examines two books on poverty reduction in India, home to some 35 percent of the world’s poorest people. The first volume is Poverty…
July 19, 2012
Wars and Conflict
The Complex Ties Among Poverty, Development, and Security
Over the past decade a new conventional wisdom has emerged that security and development are mutually reinforcing, and that long-term security is not possible without reducing poverty and promoting e…
