World Bank, 1997 World Development Indicators, p 52 ; Weisbrot et al., Poverty Rates in Venezuela ( CEPR, 2006 ); Venezuela, Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Venezuela.

* Jennifer Brinkerhoff, Stephen C. Smith, and Hildy Teegen, NGOs and the Millennium Development Goals: Citizen Action to Reduce Poverty, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

* Research on the role of Agriculture in Poverty Reduction from the Overseas Development Institute

* International Poverty Centre, of the United Nations Development Programme

* Sabina Alkire, Head of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, University of Oxford.

Some of the policies around urban renewal began to change under President Lyndon Johnson and the War on Poverty, and in 1968, the Housing and Urban Development Act and The New Communities Act of 1968 guaranteed private financing for private entrepreneurs to plan and develop new communities.

Sachs is first holder of the Royal Professor Ungku Aziz Chair in Poverty Studies at the Centre for Poverty and Development Studies at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for 2007-09.

* Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative, Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford

He led the Duke-based International Commission for Central American Recovery and Development, a task force of scholars and leaders that published Poverty, Conflict, and Hope: A Turning Point in Central America ( also known as the Sanford Commission Report since he was " the principal catalyst of the commission's work ") in 1989 with the principles for promoting peace, democracy and equitable development in Central America.

:* Task Force on Science Journals, Poverty, and Human Development

In 1963 Dr. Pantoja directed a project of the Puerto Rican Forum that resulted in the establishment of the Puerto Rican Community Development Project ( PRCDP ), funded by the federal War on Poverty.

The Global Poverty Project is an international education and advocacy organisation using its multimedia presentation 1. 4 Billion Reasons to educate people about the Millennium Development Goals and our capacity to end extreme poverty within a generation.

According to the Tanzania Poverty and Human Development Report 2005, the Moshi urban district had the highest literacy rate for persons over 15 years of age when compared to any of the 128 other districts in Tanzania.

Universidad Torcuato Di Tella has opened the following centers: the Center for Financial Research, the Entrepreneurship and New Business Development Center, the International Studies Center, and the Center for the Evaluation and Study in Social Economics for Poverty Relief.

* Audio recordings of Professor Juan Pablo Nicolini at the three-part workshop on " Poverty & Growth: Reflections on Latin America " held at the University of Chicago: " Growth: Evidence and Sources "-Session 1 ; " Poverty and Economic Development "-Session 2 ; " Reflections on Argentina "-Session 3.

* Centre for Alleviation of Poverty through Secondary Crops ' Development in Asia and the Pacific ( CAPSA )

( 2000 ), " Poverty and Development Into the 21st Century ", Oxford University Press, The Open University.

( 2006 ), " Promises Not Kept: Poverty and the Betrayal of Third World Development " ( 7th ed.

Supporters of the Bill include ( but are not limited to ): Amnesty International, the Halifax Initiative, Make Poverty History, Mining Watch Canada, Africa Files, World Vision, The North-South Institute, Canadian Labour Congress, Development and Peace ( Canada ), Ecojustice Canada, Rights and Democracy, Social Justice Committee of Montreal, and Canadian Network on Corporate Accountability.

Various indices-the UNDP's Human and Gender ‐ Related Development Indices, and the World's Bank ’ s Poverty Index-are used to track poverty, development, and gender equity at the population level.

Founded in Bergen in 1930, CMI conducts both applied and theoretical research, and has a multidisciplinary profile anchored in four thematic research groups, namely Human Rights, Democracy and Development, Peace, Conflict and the State, Poverty Reduction and Public Sector Reform.

* Esther Duflo, Director of Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009 MacArthur Fellow, 2010 Clark Medal winner, advocate for field experiments.

* Jeffrey Sachs, author of The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities of Our Time ( preview ) and Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet

“ African Evidence on the Relation of Poverty, Time Preference and the Environment .” Ecological Economics.

Sachs is the author of hundreds of academic articles and many books, including three New York Times bestsellers: The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time ( Penguin, 2005 ), Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet ( Penguin, 2008 ), and The Price of Civilization: Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity ( Random House, 2011 ).

* Sychophantasy in Economics: A Review of George Gilder's Wealth and Poverty, The Great Ideas Today, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., Chicago: 1982.

* Kennet M., and Michelle Gale De Oliveira, and Winchester A., ( 2012 ) Green Economics: Women's Unequal Pay and Poverty.

* The Economics of Poverty ( 1955 )

Some of his better known books include A Question of Class, Privatizing Malaysia, Southeast Asia ’ s Misunderstood Miracle, Tigers in Trouble, Malaysia ’ s Political Economy, Rents, Rent-Seeking and Economic Development, Malaysian Eclipse, The New Development Economics, Flat World, Big Gaps, Reforming the International Financial System for Development, Poor Poverty and Good Governance for What?

The Economics of Poverty Traps, Part One: Complete Markets, Journal of Economic Growth, ( December ): 449-486.

The Wealth and Poverty of Nations ( ISBN 0-393-04017-8 ), published in 1998 ( with an epilogue added to the 1999 paperback edition ), is a book by David Landes, currently Emeritus Professor of Economics and former Coolidge Professor of History at Harvard University.

Amartya Sen's Development as Freedom ( Nobel Prize in Economics, 1999 ), argues that third world development must be understood as the expansion of human capability, not simply the increase in national income per capita, and thus requires policies attuned to health and education, not simply GDP.

The main journals which publish work in econometrics are Econometrica, the Journal of Econometrics, the Review of Economics and Statistics, Econometric Theory, the Journal of Applied Econometrics, Econometric Reviews, the Econometrics Journal, Applied Econometrics and International Development, the Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, and the Journal of Economic and Social Measurement.

* UNU World Institute for Development Economics Research ( UNU-WIDER ) in Helsinki, Finland

The UNU World Institute for Development Economics Research ( Helsinki, Finland ) undertakes multidisciplinary research and policy analysis on structural changes affecting the living conditions of the world ’ s poorest people ; provides a forum for professional interaction and the advocacy of policies leading to robust, equitable and environmentally sustainable growth ; and promotes capacity strengthening and training in the field of economic and social policy-making.

Other important early publications include: Edward H. Chamberlin's ( 1950 ) The Theory of Monopolistic Competition ; François Perroux's ( 1950 ) Economic Spaces: Theory and Application ; Torsten Hägerstrand's ( 1953 ) Innovationsförloppet ur Korologisk Synpunkt ; Edgar S. Dunn's ( 1954 ) The Location of Agricultural Production ; Martin J. Beckmann, C. B McGuire, and Clifford B. Winston's ( 1956 ) Studies in the Economics of Transportation ; Melvin L. Greenhut's ( 1956 ) Plant Location in Theory and Practice ; Gunnar Myrdal's ( 1957 ) Economic Theory and Underdeveloped Regions ; Albert O. Hirschman's ( 1958 ) The Strategy of Economic Development ; and Claude Ponsard's ( 1958 ) Histoire des Théorie Économique Spatiales.

It was founded on 24 July 1919 and now consists of five faculties and one institute-the Faculty of Agronomy, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Faculty of Business and Economics, Faculty of Horticulture, Faculty of Regional Development and International Studies and Institute of Lifelong Education.

The Faculties Economics and Business joined with the Faculty of Engineering through their Graduate Schools have developed an MBA programme with dual degree in Universitat Pompeu Fabra with specializations in Finance, Human Resources, Strategic Communication, Marketing and Quality Control and a Master in Finance ; Masters programmes in Educational Management, Organizational Development and Behaviour, Information Technology Management, Systems Administration and Business Administration.

Professor McFadden will have joint appointments at the USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development and the Department of Economics at USC College to examine fundamental problems facing the health care sector, looking specifically at how consumers make choices about health insurance and medical services.

* Debraj Ray 1998, Development Economics, Princeton University Press, ISBN 0-691-01706-9.

While detailed feminist critiques of traditional economics appeared in the 1970s and 80s, such as those of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession ( CSWEP ) in 1972, feminist economics rapidly developed with the initiation of networks to support the careers of women in economics such as the Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era ( DAWN ) and in 1994, with the founding of the International Association for Feminist Economics ( IAFFE ) and the journal Feminist Economics.

The university is organized into six undergraduate colleges: Humanities and Behavioral Sciences, Business and Economics, Education and Human Development, Health and Human Services, Science and Technology, and Visual and Performing Arts.

A reference point for this new economics can be found in James Robertson's A New Economics of Sustainable Development, and the work of thinkers and activists, who participate in his Working for a Sane Alternative network and program.

Dr. Supachai received his Master's degree in Economics, Development Planning and his Ph. D. in Economic Planning and Development at the Netherlands School of Economics ( now known as Erasmus University in Rotterdam.

* Pranab Bardhan, professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley, author of texts in both trade and development economics, and editor of the Journal of Development Economics from 1985-2003.

* Peter Thomas Bauer, professor of economics at the London School of Economics, author of Dissent on Development.

* Kaushik Basu, professor of economics at Cornell University and author of Analytical Development Economics.

* Development Economics through the Decades: A Critical Look at 30 Years of the World Development Report World Bank Publications, Washington DC ( 2009 ), ISBN 978-0-8213-7255-5

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