Poverty Set of links to selected, evaluated and annotated Internet resources relevant to poverty. Report is available in English, French, and Spanish, and is offered as either an HTML or a PDF file. 20000726 Building Poverty Reduction Strategies Set of documents outlining the process of strategy development for tackling poverty worldwide and principles underlying such strategies. Features a collection of information and data on poverty, such as household surveys, estimates of inequality, and social indicators.
Papers are available in English, French, and Spanish.
20001130 Child Poverty in Rich Nations Offers data on the extent of relative and absolute child poverty in the industrialised world, revealing that 1 in 6 of the 47 million children in OECD countries live below nationally accepted levels. Provides comparative league tables of poverty rates within various countries throughout the world. 20000726 Economic Geography Resources Links to a variety of resources that economic geographers may find useful, such as census maps which display data related to population, race, ancestry, income, poverty, commuters, adult educational achievement, and household types, other research groups in the social sciences, news sources, government, politics and financial resources. Making Globalisation Work for the Poor Presents a UK Government White Paper discussing various benefits to the world's poor which could result from the rapid economic developments accompanying globalisation. Sets out strategies for achieving this, and covers topics such as governance and poverty, the global environment, and skills development.