Subject(s): Poverty and Inequality Measures -- Poverty;,Equality, Social policy, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness -- Origins of idea of a world free of poverty : Progress against absolute [poverty over last 200 years, premodern ideas about poverty, first poverty enlightenment, transition in thinking in nineteenth and early twentieth centuries -- New thinking after 1950 : Second poverty enlightenment, Rawl's principles of justice, poverty and inequality in America, culture of poverty, basic income movement, poverty in developing world, industrialization , globalization and poverty -- Measures and methods : Measuring welfare, concepts of welfare, using household surveys welfare measurement, alternative measures in theory and practice, food share, strive to be absolutist in the space of welfare, avoid paternalism, recognize data limitations -- Poverty lines : Objectives and subjective poverty lines -- Poverty and inequality measures : Normative foundations, measuring inequality, measuring poverty, decompositions of poverty measures, robustness of poverty comparisons, pro-poor growth and growth incidence, measuring and inequality of opportunity, targeting and incidence measures -- Impact evaluation : Threats to internal validity of an evaluation, evaluation methods in practice, external validity of an evaluation, ethical validity of an evaluation -- Poverty and policy -- Dimensions of poverty and inequality : Global inequality, poverty measures for developing world, poverty measures for urban and rural areas, global measures of poverty, poverty and non-income dimensions of welfare -- Growth, inequality and poverty : Theories of economic growth and distributional change, Harris-Todaro model, Labour-market frictions, evidence on growth and distributional changes, industrial revolution did benefit wage workers, distribution post Kuznets, growth and non-income dimensions of welfare, growth and types of inequality, urbanization and poverty, progress against absolute poverty, inequality as an impediment to pro-poor growth, economic crises and poverty, evidence on distributional impediments to growth, pro-poor growth case studies of China, Brazil and India -- Economy-wide and sectoral polices : Urban v/s Rural, urban-rural prioritization for development, growth, poverty and urbanization, role of agriculture and rural development, land polices, healthcare polices, water , sanitation and hygiene, schooling polices, public interventions campaigns, price interventions, trade polices, development aid, polices, aid and institutions -- Targeted interventions : Incentives, targeting and leakage, state-contingent transfer financed by taxation, subsidies, investing in human capital, early childhood development , other targeted policies -- Past programs and future challenges