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CPRC's publications database contains over 300 publications. These include concise policy briefs and research summaries; a series of over 100 academic working papers, and further series published by country partners; academic and professional journal articles; Chronic Poverty Reports and books; and papers presented at CPRC conferences and workshops.

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Trends in Poverty and Social Indicators: An Update

Ali, Zulfiqar; Begum, Sharifa (2006)

PRCPB Working Paper
This paper provides an update of the changes that Bangladesh has undergone in terms of its poverty and social indicators over the last one and a half decades. Several key social and human development indicators have been considered which provides an analysis of the trends at both the national as...

Chronic Poverty in Rural Areas: The Role of Government Policy

P. V. Thomas (2006)

CPRC-IIPA Working Paper
This paper has been published as a chapter in the book entitled Chronic Poverty in India, edited by Aasha Kapur Mehta and Andrew Shepherd, Sage Publications, India.
This book is not available to download online, but it is available to buy from the ODI bookshop (and other...

Natural Disasters, Risks, Vulnerability and Persistence of Poverty: An Analysis of Household-Level Data

Shahabuddin, Quazi; Ali, Zulfiqar (2006)

PRCPB Working Paper
The paper explores the vulnerability and persistence of poverty amongst the rural households in the disaster-prone areas of Bangladesh. It draws upon some of the factors and processes that have prevented certain groups of people in ecologically vulnerable areas escaping from extreme poverty using...

Correlates of Incidence and Exit from Chronic Poverty in Rural India: Evidence from Panel Data

Shashanka Bhide and Aasha Kapur Mehta (2006)

CPRC-IIPA Working Paper
The distinction between chronic or extended duration poverty and transient poverty is rarely made in the substantial literature on poverty in India. Determination of poverty as chronic or temporary requires that the same households be tracked over time through a panel data set and/or use of life or...

Linkages between Education, Employment and Poverty

Rahman, Rushidan Islam (2006)

PRCPB Working Paper
The paper explores the linkages between 'Education' and 'Poverty' and the possibility of poverty reduction through better employment opportunities. The paper proceeds with the understanding that poverty acts as both cause and effect of a lack of education. In particular, the paper examines whether...

Rural Casual Labourers, Wages and Poverty: 1983 to 1999-2000

Shiela Bhalla, Anup K. Karan and T. Shobha (2006)

CPRC-IIPA Working Paper
This paper has been published as a chapter in the book entitled Chronic Poverty in India, edited by Aasha Kapur Mehta and Andrew Shepherd, Sage Publications, India.
This book is not available to download online, but it is available to buy from the ODI bookshop (and other...

Popular Expectations of Government in Bangladesh

Hossain, Naomi; Ali, Tariq Omar (2006)

PRCPB Working Paper
This paper presents findings from research into expectations of government, based on focus group discussion sessions with over 100 poor and very poor people in rural and urban Bangladesh. The research was designed to help improve our understanding of the political constraints shaping public policy...

Political Perspectives to Chronic Poverty

N.C.B. Nath (2006)

CPRC-IIPA Working Paper
This paper has been published as a chapter in the book entitled Chronic Poverty in India, edited by Aasha Kapur Mehta and Andrew Shepherd, Sage Publications, India.
This book is not available to download online, but it is available to buy from the ODI bookshop (and other...

Affordability to Finance Poverty Reduction Programmes

Chowdhury, Omar Haider; Ali, Zulfiqar (2006)

PRCPB Working Paper
Trapped in the realm between market failure and social justice, Bangladesh’s objective of alleviating poverty is marred by its inability to mobilize enough domestic resources to launch large-scale anti-poverty programs. Moreover, this inability is further strained by the accumulation of large...

Chronic Poverty and Gendered Patterns of Intra-Household Resource Allocation: A Preliminary Enquiry

Ratna Sudarshan and Rina Bhattacharya (2006)

CPRC-IIPA Working Paper
This paper has been published as a chapter in the book entitled Chronic Poverty in India, edited by Aasha Kapur Mehta and Andrew Shepherd, Sage Publications, India.
This book is not available to download online, but it is available to buy from the ODI bookshop (and other...

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