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Session 5: Understanding the Growth, Poverty, and Inequality Nexus Watch Video Connection Speed: High Speed Low Speed    Event Title : Frontiers in Practice Date : 3/23/2006 Duration : 97 minutes Language  : English Country/Region : World Keyword :  Evaluation Monitoring  Macroeconomics and Growth  Microeconomic Presenter : Asad Alam Francisco Ferreira Ambar Narayan | Related Material | Recommendations |Related B-SPAN Videos |  DESCRIPTION  Poverty diagnostics provide an essential foundation for creating good poverty reduction strategies. Through this analysis, economists should be able to identify the sectors most affected by poverty and lack of growth in developing countries, and formulate a solution. But have these diagnostics really helped to target development? In this workshop, convened at the World Bank’s headquarters on March 23, 2006, participants examined the current state of poverty analysis at the Bank, and evaluated it in terms of its effectiveness and policy relevance. Asad Alam, Sector Manager at the Bank, chaired a session titled “Understanding the Growth, Poverty, and Inequality Nexus.” Francisco Ferreira, Lead Economist for the Bank’s research group, opened with a presentation on the relationships between poverty measures and growth incidence curves, particularly over time. He noted how almost all measures of poverty can be understood as changes in wealth distribution, and discussed ways to manipulate the model to understand the impacts of various policies. Ambar Narayan, Senior Economist for the Bank, presented an application of poverty and growth measures using research from Sri Lanka. The analysis also included the impact on poverty from factors such as migration. Questions from the audience included the topics of political context, social identity, and financial devaluation.  RELATED MATERIALS   Workshop Agenda Related World Bank and Other Links: World Bank: Poverty Analysis World Bank: Data and Research Related B-SPAN Events: Attacking Extreme Poverty Seminar RELATED B-SPAN EVENTS Evaluation Monitoring (56) Macroeconomics and Growth (73) Microeconomic (30)