Within the PREM Anchor, the Poverty Reduction Group offers strategic guidance and knowledge services to make the World Bank and its clients more effective in reducing poverty. Current areas of focus include Shocks and Risks, Markets and Opportunities, and Policies and Institutions for Poverty Reduction. Learn More.
Moving Out of Poverty: Success from the Bottom-Up The global Moving out of Poverty study, carried out in 15 countries, is one of the few large-scale comparative research attempts to analyze mobility out of poverty rather than poverty alone. Learn More
Employment Lab This diagnostic toolbox aims to profile and monitor labor market outcomes and their linkages with growth, employment, earnings, and poverty reduction. Learn More
April 29, 2009 Maintaining Productive Employment during Times of Crisis Experts from the OECD, World Bank, IMF, and academia gather to discuss the employment impact of the current global economic crisis on workers. Learn More
April 29, 2009 Impact Evaluation of Poverty Alleviation Programs & Institutional Reforms This course examines the role of impact evaluation and M&E in project design and gives an extensive overview of the quantitative methods used in a rigorous impact evaluation. Learn More
April 28, 2009 Evaluating the Poverty and Distributional Impacts of Economy-Wide Policies This course presents the logic of social impact analysis and its application to the evaluation of the poverty and distributional impacts of economy-wide policies. Learn More
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