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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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Health and Poverty Linkages: Perspectives of the chronically poor
Ursula Grant (2005)
CPR 2008-09 Background Paper
This paper identifies the mediating factors that underpin a spiral or descent into chronic poverty and identifies points at which intervention will most likely make a...
Pro-Poor Growth and the Poorest
Ursula Grant (2005)
CPR 2008-09 Background Paper
This paper examines the relationship of the poorest with growth (absolute sense), and whether or not the relationship the very poorest people have with growth is different from that for the poor as a whole (relative). Impacts of economic growth on the poorest are routed through direct channels...
Growth and the poorest: A panel data analysis for Uganda
Andy McKay (2005)
CPR 2008-09 Background Paper
This paper looks at the relationship between growth and the poorest based on a panel data set – where the same household is surveyed at more than one point in time.
It examines the extent to which the poorest are able to participate in growth using a panel data set of more than 1000...
It examines the extent to which the poorest are able to participate in growth using a panel data set of more than 1000...
Forgotten by the Highway: Globalisation, adverse incorporation and chronic poverty in a commercial farming district of South Africa
Andries du Toit (2004)
Working Paper No. 49
This paper presents key findings from a livelihoods survey of households in four poor neighbourhoods in the Western Cape district of Ceres, one of the centres of South Africa's deciduous fruit export industry. It explores the nature and dynamics of the persistence of poverty in the context of...
Aid Distribution and the MDGs
Bob Baulch (2004)
Working Paper No. 48
The United Nations and other aid agencies are calling for aid to be more than doubled so that the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) can be achieved by 2015. Unfortunately, as this paper shows, many important donors currently distribute their aid in ways that are not consistent with the MDGs. It...
Fracture Points in Social Policies for Chronic Poverty Reduction
Kate Bird and Nicola Pratt (2004)
Working Paper No. 47
This paper examines the fracture points, or areas of weakness and failure, in social policy formation - from agenda setting through to policy formation and its legitimisation. It suggests why it is that despite clearly identified severe and widespread problems, which have been shown to drive and...
Unsustainable Livelihoods, health shocks and urban chronic poverty: Rickshaw Pullers as a Case Study
Sharifa Begum and Binayak Sen (2004)
Working Paper No. 46
Five ideas constitute the central message of this study. First, urban rickshaw pullers come from a very poor economic background consistent with the characteristics of chronic poverty. Second, rickshaw pulling provides a route of modest upward mobility for those among the rural chronically poor who...
How many chronically poor people are there in the world? Some preliminary estimates
Andy McKay, Bob Baulch, Mehtap Hisarciklilar and David Lawson (2004)
Working Paper No. 45
This background paper provides some preliminary estimates of the global incidence of chronic poverty for the Chronic Poverty Report 2004-05. We define chronic poverty as remaining below the poverty line for at least five years, with welfare measured in expenditure or income terms. Using the latest...
The State of the Poorest 2004/2005: Chronic Poverty in Bangladesh - Tales of Ascent, Descent, Marginality and Persistence - Overview
eds. Binayak Sen and David Hulme (2004)
Working Paper No. 43
This study examines what has been happening to the poorest people in Bangladesh over recent times. Here we review the present status and situation of the extreme poor and the chronically poor, analyse the main factors that keep them in poverty and identify the types of policy that can help them...
The Influence of Ill Health on Chronic and Transient Poverty: Evidence from Uganda
David Lawson (2004)
Working Paper No. 41
The paper uses nationally representative household panel data to investigate if ill health is important in influencing poverty persistence and transitions in Uganda, a country that was both at the centre of Africa's HIV/AIDS pandemic and experienced impressive poverty reduction during the 1990's....
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The recent round of poverty estimates, placing Orissa as the poorest state in India, has pressed an...
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