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• Countries of Concern
• Government Programs
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• Distance Learning Links
• Budgets
• Statistics
• References and Links

Definition

Scope

Forecast

http://meta2.com/pdb/Weekly/PDBpoverty.pdf

Calendar With Links (Past, Current, Future)

Weekly Highlights

http://meta2.com/pdb/pdb_WeeklySummaryList.htm

Federated Search

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Poverty

Authors & Experts

Following are the top published and most cited authors on poverty. We are asking them to idenitfy the top unpublished experts and invite both groups to use this wiki.

Author Articles Citations
RAVALLION M 76 1110
World Bank, MSN MC 3- 306
Development Research Group,
1818 H Street NW, Washington, DC 20433

LICHTER DT 29 823
Cornell Univ,
Dept Policy Anal & Management,
Ithaca, NY, 14853

DUNCAN GJ 26 2612
Northwestern Univ,
Inst Policy Res,
2040 Sheridan Rd,
Evanston, IL, 60208

DANZIGER S 25 1515
Univ Michigan,
Gerald R Ford Sch Publ Policy,
015 E Huron St,
Ann Arbor, MI, 48104

KAWACHI I 23 2017
Harvard Univ,
Sch Publ Hlth,
Dept Soc Human Dev & Hlth,
Boston, MA

KRIEGER N 23 1976
Harvard Univ,
Sch Publ Hlth,
Dept Soc Human Dev & Hlth,
Boston, MA, 02115

RANK MR 21 317
Washington Univ,
St Louis, MO, 63130

JENKINS SP 20 383
Univ Essex,
Inst Social & Econ Res,
Colchester CO4 3SQ, Essex, England

JENSEN L 19 568
Population Research Institute,
Pennsylvania State University

MASSEY DS 19 3391
Princeton Univ,
Off Populat Res,
Wallace Hall,
Princeton, NJ, 08544

NOLAN B 19 319
Natl Inst Econ & Social Res,
4 Burlington Rd,
Dublin 4, Ireland

MCLAUGHLIN DK 18 180
Penn State Univ,
Dept Agr Econ & Rural Sociol,
University Pk, PA, 16802

BARRETT CB 17 332
Cornell Univ,
Dept Appl Econ & Management,
Ithaca, NY, 14853

GAIHA R 17 146
Univ Delhi,
Fac Management Studies,
Delhi 110007, India

NEWACHECK PW 16 1270
Univ Calif San Francisco,
Dept Social & Behav Sci,
San Francisco, CA, 94118

SUBRAMANIAN SV 16 273
Center for Society and Health,
Harvard School of Public Health,
Boston, MA

THORBECKE E 16 226
Cornell Univ,
Ithaca, NY, 14853

LANJOUW P 15 176
Brookings Institution,
Massachusetts Avenue NW,
Washington, DC

Brooks-Gunn J 14 2993
Child Development and Education,
Teachers College,
Columbia University,
New York, NY

DATT G 14 237
World Bank Grp,
SE Asia & Pacific Reg,
Level 19, 14 Martin Pl,
Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia

DUCLOS JY 14 76
Univ Laval,
Dept Econ,
Quebec City, PQ G1K 7P4,
Canada

GERONIMUS AT 14 907
Univ Michigan, Sch Publ Hlth,
Dept Hlth Behav & Hlth Educ,
Ann Arbor, MI, 48109

GUSTAFSSON B 14 530
Univ Gothenburg,
Dept Social Work,
S-40530 Gothenburg, Sweden

HIRSCHL TA 14 52
Cornell Univ,
Pop & Dev Program,
Ithaca, NY, 14853

SMEEDING TM 14 382
Syracuse Univ,
Ctr Policy Res,
Syracuse, NY, 13244

ZHENG BH 14 45
Univ Colorado,
Dept Econ,
Denver, CO, 80217

GARFINKEL I 13 954
Columbia Univ,
Sch Social Work,
622 W 113th St,
New York, NY, 10027

PLOTNICK RD 13 436
Univ Washington,
Seattle, WA, 98195

SAHN DE 13 274
Cornell Univ,
Cornell Food Nutr Policy Program,
3M12 MVR Hall,
Ithaca, NY, 14853

SAUNDERS P 13 1777
Ctr Independent Studies,
Sydney, NSW, Australia

TOWNSEND P 13 3179
Department of Sociology,
University of Essex,
Wivenhoe Park,
Colchester, Essex, UK

WHELAN CT 13 164
Econ & Social Res Inst,
Dublin, Ireland

DORLING D 12 328
Univ Sheffield,
Sheffield S10 2TN, S Yorkshire, UK

KAKWANI N 12 525
Univ New S Wales,
Sch Econ,
Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia

KANBUR R 12 489
Cornell Univ,
Ithaca, NY, 14853

LIDDLE PF 12 1676
Univ Nottingham,
Nottingham NG7 2RD UK

LIPTON M 12 2473
Poverty Research Institute,
Sussex University, Brighton, UK

LOKSHIN M 12 56
World Bank, Dev Res Grp,
1818 H St NW,
Washington, DC, 20433

MALLA AK 12 408
McGill University and Douglas Hospital Research Centre,
6875 Boul. LaSalle,
Verdun, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H4H 1R3

MEAD LM 12 411
NYU,
550 1St Ave,
New York, NY, 10012

SADOULET E 12 124
Univ Calif Berkeley,
Berkeley, CA, 94720

SMITH KR 12 623
Univ Utah,
Huntsman Canc Inst,
Dept Family & Consumer Studies,
Salt Lake City, UT, 84112

YOSHIKAWA H 12 594
Harvard Univ, Grad Sch Educ,
Larsen Hall, Room 704,
Appian Way,
Cambridge, MA, 02138

EAMON MK 11 54
School of Social Work,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Urbana, Illinois, 61801

ELLIS F 11 533
Univ E Anglia,
Sch Dev Studies,
Norwich NR4 7TJ,
Norfolk, UK

HALFON N 11 595
UCLA Schools of Medicine,
Public Health, Public Policy, and Social Research,
Los Angeles, CA

KAPLAN GA 11 2414
University of Michigan School of Public Health
and Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health
Ann Arbor, MI 48104

MEYER DR 11 737
Institute for Research on Poverty,
Univ Wisconsin,
Madison, WI, 53706

NORMAN RMG 11 598
Univ Western Ontario,
Prevent & Early Intervent Program Psychoses,
London, ON, Canada

OZAWA MN 11 253
Washington Univ,
George Warren Brown Sch Social Work,
St Louis, MO, 63130

WALDFOGEL J 11 555
Columbia University
School of Social Work,
New York, New York

BAULCH B 10 102
Univ Sussex,
Inst Dev Studies,
Brighton, E Sussex, England

CHEN SH 10 310
Natl Chengchi Univ,
Dept Econ,
AI ECON Res Ctr,
Taipei 116, Taiwan

DEININGER K 10 624
World Bank,
Dev Res Grp,
1818 H St NW,
Washington, DC, 20433

DERCON S 10 205
Department of Economics,
University of Oxford,
Manor Road, Oxford OX1 3UQ, UK

EVANS GW 10 1969
Univ Oregon,
Eugene, OR, 97403

HAVEMAN R 10 876
Univ Wisconsin,
Dept Econ,
Madison, WI, 53706

HOLDEN KC 10 292
UNIV WISCONSIN,
DEPT CONSUMER SCI,
MADISON, WI, 53706

JACKSON AP 10 224
University of Pittsburgh
School of Social Work,
2117 Cathedral of Learning,
Pittsburgh, PA 15260

LEVENTHAL T 10 432
Johns Hopkins Univ,
Inst Policy Studies,
3400 N Charles St,
Wyman Bldg,
Baltimore, MD 21218

MCLOYD VC 10 1605
Univ N Carolina,
Dept Psychol,
CB 3270, Davie Hall,
Chapel Hill, NC, 27599

PRESSMAN S 10 90
Monmouth Univ,
Dept Econ & Finance,
W Long Branch, NJ, 07764

ROZELLE S 10 258
Univ Calif Davis,
Dept Agr & Resource Econ,
Davis, CA, 95616

SAMPSON RJ 10 3493
Harvard Univ,
Dept Sociol,
William James Hall,
Cambridge, MA, 02138

SATTERTHWAITE D 10 170
Human Settlements Programme,
International Institute for Environment and Development,
3 Endsleigh Street,
London WC1H ODD, UK

SHAW M 10 1451
Department of Social Medicine,
University of Bristol,
Bristol BS8 2PR, UK

SHEK DTL 10 507
Chinese Univ Hong Kong,
Dept Social Work,
Social Welf Practice & Res Ctr,
Shatin, Hong Kong, Peoples Republic of China

WACQUANT L 10 416
Univ Calif Berkeley,
Dept Sociol,
Berkeley, CA, 94720

ABER JL 9 512
NYU,
Steinhardt Sch Educ,
New York, NY,

ALCOCK P 9 173
Univ Birmingham,
Birmingham B15 2TT,
W Midlands, UK

BOUND J 9 1716
Univ Michigan,
Sch Publ Hlth,
Dept Hlth Behav & Hlth Educ,
Ann Arbor, MI, 48109

BRADSHAW J 9 1006
Social Policy Research Unit,
University of York,
Heslington, York YO10 5DD, UK

BRAVEMAN P 9 494
Department of Family and Community Medicine
and Center on Social Disparities in Health,
University of California San Francisco,
500 Parnassus Avenue MU-3E,
San Francisco, CA 94143-0900

BURKHAUSER RV 9 771
Department of Policy Analysis and Management,
Cornell University and German Institute for Economic Research,
Ithaca, NY

CHEN JT 9 78
Department of Society, Human Development and Health,
Harvard School of Public Health,
677 Huntington Ave,
Kresge 7th Floor,
Boston MA 02115-6096

DREZE J 9 1661
GB Pant Social Sci Inst,
Allahabad,
Uttar Pradesh, India

FIELDS GS 9 865
Cornell University,
250 Ives Hall,
Ithaca, NY 14853-3901

FREEMAN L 9 448
Columbia Univ,
New York, NY, 10027

GALSTER GC 9 530
Department of Geography and Urban Planning,
Wayne State University,
Detroit, MI 48202

GELBERG L 9 464
Univ Calif Los Angeles,
David Geffen Sch Med,
Dept Family Med,
Los Angeles, CA, 90024

GILBERT A 9 1125
Univ Ottawa,
Dept Geog,
Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5,
Canada

GOTTSCHALK P 9 830
Department of Economics,
Boston College,
140 Commonwealth Avenue,
Chestnut Hill,
Boston, MA 02467

GUNDERSEN C 9 43
Iowa State Univ Sci & Technol,
Dept Human Dev & Family Studies,
74 LeBaron Hall,
Ames, IA, 50011

HULME D 9 387
Institute for Development Policy and Management
Crawford House,
Precinct Centre Oxford Road,
Manchester M13 9GH UK

KENNEDY BP 9 554
Harvard Univ,
Sch Publ Hlth,
Dept Hlth Policy & Management,
Boston, MA, 02115

KIM S 9 1281
Institute for Health Policy Studies,
University of California, San Francisco,
San Francisco, CA

PATEL V 9 570
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine;
and Chairperson, The Sangath Society for
Child Development and Family Guidance, India

PENDER J 9 75
Environment and Production Technology Division
International Food Policy Research Institute
2033 K St., N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20006

PIACHAUD D 9 279
Univ London
London Sch Econ & Polit Sci,
London WC2A 2AE, UK

RAMEY CT 9 1081
Georgetown University
Center on Health and Education,
Georgetown University, Washington, DC

ROGERSON CM 9 217
University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg, South Africa

SIMON D 9 815
Univ Hosp Freiburg,
Dept Psychiat & Psychotherapy,
Sect Clin Epidemiol & Hlth Serv Res,
Hauptstr 5, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany

SMITH GD 9 1566
Dept. of Social Medicine,
Univ. of Bristol, Bristol, UK

WALKER R 9 2212
The University of Nottingham,
University Park,
Nottingham NG7 2RD UK

WHITE H 9 7859
Institute of Development Studies,
University of Sussex Location:
Brighton, UK

• Note that this is only a count for articles indexed in the Social SciSearch database, not a universal count of all the author’s writings.

Serious Games

Centers of Excellence

These are the top centers of excellence identified in 2007.

EIN Starting Points/Rank

ActionAid International
Founded in 1972, based in S. Africa, works with local partners to fight poverty and injustice worldwide, reaching over 13 million of the poorest and most vulnerable people over the last year alone, helping them fight for and gain their rights to food, shelter, work, education, healthcare and a voice in the decisions that affect their lives. 1

European Anti-Poverty Network (EAPN)
A representative network of NGOs and groups involved in the fight against poverty and social exclusion in the Member States of the European Union. English and French, with many documents are available in other languages. 2

Inter-American Development Bank – Sustainable Development Dept.
Poverty & Inequality Unit - The mission of the Unit is to provide technical leadership for the Bank and its member governments in the areas of poverty reduction and promoting social equity, and to contribute to enhancing the quality of the Bank's lending and non-lending activities so as to increase their impact on poverty reduction and social equity. 3

Overseas Development Institute - Poverty & Public Policy Group
PPPG’s mission is to contribute through research, advice and communication to measures that work effectively towards the goal of eradicating poverty on a global scale. The research spans all aspects of public policy for poverty reduction, including "upstream" policy and management issues and “downstream" analysis of the causes of poverty and social exclusion. 4

World Bank – Poverty Net
Provides an introduction to key issues as well as in-depth information on poverty measurement, monitoring, analysis, and on poverty reduction strategies for researchers and practitioners. 5

Oxfam
Development, relief, and campaigning organisation that works with others to find lasting solutions to poverty and suffering around the world. 6

Development Gateway – Poverty
Working with governments, international donors and private local and global organizations, DG focuses on areas where Internet processes can deliver high impact results, such as public procurement, aid fund management, aid coordination, and the rapid exchange of lessons and best practices. 7

UNITUS
A U.S. and India-based nonprofit organization taking a hybrid approach to fighting global poverty using proven strategies from the venture capital, investment banking and strategy consulting industries. 8

Catholic Campaign for Human Development-Poverty USA
Provides facts about poverty in America as well as information on organizations, communities, and individuals addressing the issue. 9

GTZ
Germany-based GTZ provides viable, forward-looking solutions for political, economic, ecological and social development in a globalized world. We support complex reforms and change processes. All our activities are geared to improving people’s living conditions and prospects on a sustainable basis. Site also in French and German. 10

Poverty Mapping
Maintained by UNEP, promoting the use of poverty maps in policy making and targeting assistance, particularly in the areas of food security and environmental management. 11

Eldis Poverty Research Guide
Supports the analyses of poverty and related implications of social and economic policies within Africa, Asia and Latin America. A knowledge service of UK-based Institute of Development Studies. 12

Earth Institute
Columbia University – brings together talent from throughout the university to address complex issues facing the planet and its inhabitants, with particular focus on sustainable development and the needs of the world's poor. 13

Asia Productivity Organization
APO’s mission is to contribute to the socioeconomic development of Asia and the Pacific through enhancing productivity by strengthening competitiveness, harmonizing environmental protection, and enhancing social fairness. 14

ONE
Aims to help Americans raise their voice as ONE against the emergency of AIDS and extreme poverty, so that decision makers will do more to save millions of lives in the poorest countries by allocating an additional ONE percent of the U.S. budget toward providing basic needs like health, education, clean water and food. 15

Third World Network Africa
An NGO which carries out Research and Advocacy on issues of social and economic policy that advances the needs and interests of peoples of African and other third world countries (especially marginalized social groups), a fair distribution of world's resources, and forms of development which are sustainable and fulfill human needs. 16

Economic Development Directory
Directory of websites of over 2000 economic development agencies, consultants and associations worldwide. Every website listed has significant economic development information. 17

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Countries of Concern

Government Programs

Non-Government Programs

Distance Learning Links

Budgets

Statistics

References and Links

Amazon List of Books on Poverty

Wikipedia Poverty Page