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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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Poverty Measurement Blues: Understanding structural poverty

du Toit, Andries (University of the Western Cape/CPRC) (2006)

Conference Paper
This paper is available to download as CPRC Working Paper 55; the presentation from this conference is also available...

Chronic poverty and aggregation

Foster, James (Vanderbilt University) (2006)

Conference Paper
This paper presents a new family of chronic poverty measures based on the Pa poverty measures of Foster, Greer,and Thorbecke (1984). The chronically poor are identified using two cutoffs: a standard poverty line, which identifies the time periods during which a person is poor; and a duration...

Thinking through chronic poverty and destitution: theorising social relations and social ordering

Green, Maia (University of Manchester) (2006)

Conference Paper
This paper takes an anthropological look at the concept of chronic poverty. It asks what the concept does, both within and outside of specialised poverty and development discourses, investigates its genealogy and considers what kinds of social phenomena it captures. While economistic conceptions of...

Robust multi-period poverty comparisons

Grimm, Michael; Graeb, Johannes (University of Gottingen) (2006)

Conference Paper
We propose a methodology for measuring poverty over multiple periods across time and space without arbitrarily aggregating income over various years or relying on arbitrarily specified poverty lines. Following Duclos et al. (2004), we use the multivariate stochastic dominance methodology to create...

Measuring chronic non-income poverty

Gunther, Isabel; Klasen, Stephan (University of Gottingen) (2006)

Conference Paper
This paper has now been finalised and is available to download as CPRC Working Paper 79. The presentation from the conference is also available...

Bringing politics back into poverty analysis: Why understanding social relations matters more for policy on chronic poverty than measurement

Harriss, John (Simon Fraser University) (2006)

Conference Paper
This paper has now been finalised and is available to download below as CPRC Working Paper...

Child development the life course and social exclusion: are the frameworks used in the UK relevant for developing countries?

Hobcraft, John (University of York) (2006)

Conference Paper
This paper has now been finalised and is available to download below as CPRC Working Paper...

Subjective assessments, participatory methods and poverty dynamics: the Stages of Progress Method

Krishna, Anirudh (Duke University) (2006)

Conference Paper
The Stages-of-Progress methodology helps examine households' movements out of poverty and into poverty. More important, it helps uncover the reasons responsible for these movements, thereby feeding directly into policy formulation. The steps are presented in this methodology, and some results from...

The construction of an asset index measuring asset accumulation in Ecuador

Moser, Caroline; Felton, Andrew (Brookings Institution; University of Maryland) (2006)

Conference Paper
This paper has now been finalised and is available to download below as CPRC Working Paper...

Global poverty knowledge and the USA

O'Connor, Alice (University of California - Santa Barbara) (2006)

Conference Paper
Among the most telling and characteristic features of U.S. poverty knowledge is one underscored by the question this paper begins to take up. The question is how, and how much an American model of poverty knowledge has come to influence if not dominate the study of poverty globally, and by...

Latest Publications

Remoteness and chronic poverty in a forest region of Southern Orissa

The recent round of poverty estimates, placing Orissa as the poorest state in India, has pressed an...

Aid approaches and strategies for reaching the poorest

An analysis of the patterns of development known to assist and reach the poorest people is used to...