Directions in development : understanding changes in poverty / Gabriela Inchauste, Joao Pedro Azevedo, B. Essama-Nssah, Sergio Olivieri, Trang Van Nguyen, Jaime Saavedra-Chanduvi, and Hernan Winkler.

Includes bibliographical references.

Acknowledgments -- About the authors -- Abbreviations -- Opportunity knocks : deepening our understanding of poverty reduction -- A simple approach to understanding changes in poverty and inequality -- What accounts for changes in poverty over the past decade? -- Counterfactual decompositions of changes in poverty outcomes -- Why has labor income increased? : an in-depth approach to understanding poverty reduction -- Understanding poverty reduction in Bangladesh, Peru, and Thailand -- Figures -- Tables.

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