Poverty Monitoring: An International Concern

Foreword - a challenge to poverty, Richard Jolly et al. Part 1 Measurement and trends of poverty: measurement and trends of poverty, Gary S. Fields; poverty concepts and measurement, Paul Streeten; the evolution of poverty in Latin America in the 1980s, Pedro Sainz. Part 2 Poverty indicators: poverty measurement and alternative indicators, Julio Boltvinik; the human development report 1990 and the world development report 1990, Ravi Kanbur. Part 3 Planning for poverty alleviation in a context of adjustment: monitoring poverty and employment trends - an index for the social debt, Ricardo Infante and Victor Tokman; can safety nets and compensatory programmes be used for poverty alleviation, Rolph van der Hoeven; budgetary policy and social planning - listing some issues for the agenda, Ricardo Carciofi. Part 4 Rapid policy action for vulnerable groups: rapid policy interventions, Paul Streeten; identifying and targeting poverty alleviation in Chile, Alvaro Garcia; towards a rapid assessment survey of poverty, Richard Bilsborrow. Part 5 International agencies' perspectives on poverty - poverty alleviation - how can UNICEF contribute?, Eva Jespersen; on improving public policies for the poor, Ehthisam Ahmad and Nigel Chalk; poverty estimates for the ILO's world labour report, Wouter van Ginneken. Part 6 Conclusions, Richard Anker et al.