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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.

You can search for a particular publication by title, author or date - or pull out selections based on our research themes, the type of publication, or a number of suggested searches on relevant development topics. You can also use the open search engine on the right hand side of the page to search the whole CPRC website for anything you choose.

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Maternal Health, Child Well-being and Intergenerationally Transmitted Chronic Poverty: Does Women's Agency Matter?

Begum, Sharifa; Sen, Binayek (2005)

PRCPB Working Paper
This paper is about interconnections between women's empowerment and maternal health, on the one hand, and the health of children and the escape probability from chronic poverty. The literature on intergenerationally transmitted chronic poverty identifies three channels working through economic...

Spatial Inequality in Social Progress in Bangladesh

Sen, Binayek; Ali, Zulfiqar (2005)

PRCPB Working Paper
The paper tracks spatial inequality in social progress in Bangladesh as evidenced from the district-level data. It uses a multivariate framework to explore the differential pace of social progress at the spatial level. The "instructive" outliers and deviants are identified in terms of...

The Chronic Poverty Report 2004-2005

CPRC (2005)

Chronic Poverty Report
The Chronic Poverty Report 2004-05 is about people living in chronic poverty - people who remain poor for much or all of their lives, many of whom will pass on their poverty to their children and all too often die easily preventable deaths.
People in chronic poverty are those who have...

Chronic Poverty in Uganda - The Policy Challenges

CPRC Uganda (2005)

Chronic Poverty Report
Our report on Chronic Poverty in Uganda is intended to inform policy makers and implementers (both within government and civil society), so that the interests of the very poorest in our country are reflected in national priorities. The PEAP has just been revised and many of its provisions provide...

Policy Influencing and Media Engagement Resource Toolkit

Kate Bird and Ursula Grant (eds.) (2005)

Materials from the ODI/CPRC Workshop, 17th and 18th January 2005

Edited by Kate Bird and Ursula Grant

Researchers and civil society organisations face challenges when attempting to use research-based evidence to influence pro-poor policy change. Researchers and civil...

Social Assistance in Developing Countries Database (Version 1.0)

Armando Barrientos and Roger Smith (2005)

Database
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Chronic poverty in urban areas

Diana Mitlin (ed) (2005)

Journal Article
Special Issue of Environment and Urbanisation  (Vol. 17, No. 2, October 2005)

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Exploring the politics of poverty reduction: how are the poorest represented?

Sam Hickey and Sarah Bracking (2005)

Journal Article
Special issue of World Development (33/6, June 2005)
 

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Chronic poverty and social protection: Can Social Protection Tackle Chronic Poverty?

Armando Barrientos, David Hulme, Andrew Shepherd (2005)

Journal Article
Special issue of European Journal of Development Research (17/1, March 2005)
 

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Chronic poverty in urban areas

Diana Mitlin (ed) (2005)

Journal Article
Special issue of International Planning Studies (10/1, February 2005)
 

 
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