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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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Research to policy: seven aspects of the problem

Caroline Harper (2006)

This paper sets out the principles underlying the CPRC engagement strategy. It suggests ways in which researchers should think about communication and...

Chronic poverty in India: Evidence and policy imperatives

Amita Shah, Aasha Kapur Mehta and Shashanka Bhide (eds) (2006)

Journal Article
 

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Table of contents:
Editor's introduction: Chronic poverty in India: Evidence and policy imperatives
Amita Shah, Aasha Kapur Mehta and Shashanka Bhide
Policies against...

Research into policy processes: Bringing global evidence on social protection into local policy contexts

Ursula Grant (2006)

CPR 2008-09 Background Paper
This project aimed to explicitly learn about and operationalise links between international discourse and national discourses and policy processes. It has elicited responses from national policy makers and other stakeholders in Uganda, and assessed the contextual political and logistical...

Urban Economic Growth and Chronic Poverty

Ursula Grant (2006)

CPR 2008-09 Background Paper
This paper draws on available urban panel literature, the 16 OPPG studies, andwider literature. It outlines the evidence for urban poverty-growth relationships in both contexts of economic growth and economic stagnation, before exploring in more depth the issues of urban fragility.

Growth and Chronic Poverty in Nicaragua

Steve Wiggins (2006)

CPR 2008-09 Background Paper
This background paper for the Chronic Poverty Report 2007–08 addresses three key questions: 1) Where there is sustained economic growth, how can governments ensure that markets operate in ways that include the chronically poor on beneficial terms? 2) Where there is low or no growth, how can...

Growth and Chronic Poverty in Nicaragua

Steve Wiggins (2006)

This background paper for the Chronic Poverty Report 2007–08 addresses three key questions: 1) Where there is sustained economic growth, how can governments ensure that markets operate in ways that include the chronically poor on beneficial terms? 2) Where there is low or no growth, how can...

Poverty, Poverty Reduction and Poverty Dynamics in Vietnam

Nguyen Thang, Le Dang Trung, Vu Hoang Dat, Nguyen Thu Phuong (2006)

CPR 2008-09 Background Paper
 
 
 
This report is the Vietnam background paper for the Chronic Poverty Report 2008. This background paper will analyse how key markets (labour, commodity, finance and housing) can work for (and against) poor people, including chronically poor people, with...

Poverty Target Programs for The Elderly In India with Special Reference to National Old Age Pension Scheme, 1995

Anand Kumar, Navneet Anand (2006)

CPR 2008-09 Background Paper
This paper looks into various aspects of the old age pension debate and related policies in India. In the analysis that follows, we address issues such as: the identity of the drivers of change; the political context in which many of these policies emerged; the intrinsic relationship between...

The Politics of What Works: A Case Study of Food Subsidies and the Bolsa-Escola in Mozambique

Claudio Massingarela, Virgulino Nhate (2006)

CPR 2008-09 Background Paper
This study is part of the 2007/08 Chronic Poverty Report commissioned by the Overseas Development Institute, which seeks to identify successful povertyalleviation policies undertaking in developing countries.
This paper reviews two programmes – the INAS food subsidy scheme and the...

Poverty: An Annotated Bibliography of Books.

B.K. Suri, Sunita Gulati, H.C. Yadav (2006)

CPRC-IIPA Working Paper
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