April issue of the International Poverty Centre's Poverty in Focus is dedicated to Poverty and Social Impact Analysis. PSIA: Gauging Poverty Impacts.
If you want to learn more about PSIA, check also the World Bank's PSIA website.
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Geo, a new tool (still Beta) to provide easy access to country data, including projects, news and statistics. Very useful. 
The book Moving Out of Poverty: Cross Disciplinary Perspectives on Mobility was launched today at the World Bank in Washington with a Keynote Address by Charles Tilly, author of one of the chapters.
Edited by Deepa Narayan and Patti Petesch, this book "explores the topic of poor people’s mobility from the perspectives of diverse analytic traditions, country contexts and time horizons. The authors -- leading scholars and development practitioners from the fields of anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology -- not only critically examine the literature about poverty and mobility from their disciplines, but most contribute new conceptual models and evidence from their own works about how and why some people can escape poverty while many stay trapped."
This book is part of the broader project Moving Out of Poverty, a follow-up to Voices of the Poor. This global study aims to learn retrospectively from men and women who have moved out of poverty over the last decade. The World Bank's Development Research Group has recently launched a new software platform for automated, faster economic analysis.
According to our colleagues, the new software package, ADePT (Automated DEC Poverty Tables), "simplifies and speeds up routine poverty analysis and helps to minimize errors. It also introduces new techniques and methods of applied economic analysis to a wider audience. It can be used as a tool for sensitivity analysis, data checking, and as an educational tool. By producing a standard set of tables and graphs, the program allows comparisons of poverty statistics across countries."
ADePT is free and can be easily downloaded from the Bank's website.
The latest issue of UNDP International Poverty Centre's journal, Poverty in Focus, is fully devoted to the analysis of pro-poor growth and its policy implications and results. The authors spell out and apply different definitions and measures in discussing various policy-related aspects of pro-poor growth. Featured articles:
Our colleagues from the Development Data Group at the World Bank have launched this online MDG Atlas.
Each map is supported by data tables, informative text, and charts in three languages: English, French, and Spanish.
Very useful, informative and easy to use. The option to have a map resized according to relative size of countries in relation to the various MDGs provides a very interesting and instant perspective.
Related: MDG website The animated graphics prepared by Gapminder provide a nice explanation of the Human Development Trends, and make some of the frequently used development statistics more accessible.
Using these same tools Gapminder's founder, Hans Rosling, proves in a brilliant presentation at TED that development statistics can even be entertaining.
Create your own animated charts and maps.
[Via PSDblog and FP Passport] PADI, which stands for Poverty Analysis and Data Initiative, is a network of data producers, analysts and policy makers that had its original roots in East Asia. PADI has organized a number of training activities in East and South Asia. Now, the secretariat of this network is housed at the International Poverty Reduction Center in China (IPRCC).
For more information on East Asia PADI, have a look at their first newsletter. 
The World Bank has recently published this manual aiming at providing lessons on the design and functioning of Poverty Reduction Strategies (PRS) monitoring systems, based on the experience of twelve PRS countries. The focus is on the institutional arrangements of PRS systems - the rules and processes which bring the various actors and monitoring activities together in a coherent framework.
The full text and links to the individual chapters and case studies are accesible for free.
The World Bank has just launched the Moving Out of Poverty study website.
This is an ongoing project. Reports will be posted in the web site as they become available. As it was the case with Voices of the Poor, this will be an excellent opportunity to learn directly from the actual protagonists of poverty. |
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