'The rise of Neoliberalism in the 1980s dramatically transformed
the industrial practices of many developing countries, signalling the
shift towards export-oriented industrialisation. Since then, the spread
of globalised production has gone hand-in-hand with intensified
exploitation of a decentralized, flexible and cheap labour force
(Mezzadri 2008)'. Author(s): Mezzadri, A (2008) Centre for Development Policy and Research (SOAS): London, Development ViewPoint N.12, August 2008.

Over 7,000 Tanzanians Give Their Opinions on livelihood, education, health, governance, infrastructure, well-being, citizen participation, and more. This report is the largest perception survey conducted in Mainland Tanzania to date. 7,879 Tanzanians, aged from 7 to 90 years, from ten mainland regions, were asked for their opinion on aspects of economic progress, their standard of living, quality of and access to economic and social services, and trends in governance.

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'The interest of the international development community in ‘Pro-Poor Growth’ appears to have waned.1 This Development
Viewpoint examines the pros and cons of adopting its most popular replacement, ‘inclusive growth’.
A ‘pro-poor’ approach did have the advantage of focus: concentrating on the most deprived. Judging progress involved attaching greater weight to the advance of the poor (e.g., “the
incomes of the poor grew faster than those of the non-poor”).
But what about the more...

"In 1961, the United States Department of Agriculture published an Economy Food Plan carefully designed “as a nutritionally
adequate diet for short-term or emergency use” for poor people.
This diet was updated and later re-branded as the Thrifty Food Plan. The lowest cost stated for this minimal diet was $80.40 per person per month in 1999.
The relevant equivalent of the World Bank’s $1 a day poverty line is $37.75 per person per month in 1999, and $49 today.
This is clearly not enoug more...

"The findings of this project reveal that gender influences migration, remittances and their relationship to local rural development in several ways. First of all, gender norms and sex-segregated labour markets have traditionally promoted and prioritized Filipino
women’s migration to Italy over the migration of their male counterparts. Female migration has been propelled by a care crisis in developed countries, such as Italy, which has opened up employment opportunities specifically for wome more...

"Some years ago a consensus emerged in the development community on the idea of an international poverty line of around $1 a day at purchasing power parity. This became the focus of the first Millennium Development Goal (MDG), which calls for halving the 1990 $1 a day poverty rate by 2015.
In a recent IPC One Pager, “ Are Estimates of Poverty in Latin America Reliable?”, Sanjay Reddy asserts that this poverty line is “arbitrary” and “unreliable.” He feels that the line is too low to more...

"What is the level of income poverty in Latin America and has it been decreasing? Are current estimates reliable?
The most influential approach to gauging income poverty regionally as well as globally uses the World Bank’s international poverty lines of ‘one-dollar-a-day’ and ‘two-dollars-a-day’ per person. The Bank uses ‘purchasing power parity’ (PPP) factors to translate these international lines into local currencies". Reddy, S. (2008) International Poverty Centre (IPC): Brazil more...