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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 Persistence and Transitions in Uganda: A Combined Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis

David Lawson, Andy McKay, John Okidi (2003)

Working Paper No. 38
This paper develops the current understanding of the significant variation in individual experiences of poverty movements, by combining qualitative and quantitative insights at the individual, household and community level. It builds strongly on earlier work by Okidi, with different authors,...

The Politics of Staying Poor in Uganda

Sam Hickey (2003)

Working Paper No. 37
This paper explores how political actors, processes, debates and institutions influence the reduction and reproduction of chronic poverty in Uganda. Uganda provides a particularly appropriate case study for such work, as the country's recent success in poverty reduction has been significantly...

Multiple shocks and downward mobility:learning from life histories of rural Ugandans

Kate Bird and Isaac Shinyekwa (2003)

Working Paper No. 36
This paper presents findings from research in rural Uganda based on household survey and village level participatory work with in-depth life history interviews. This allowed the exploration of trajectories into and out of poverty and found that the loss of assets and composite shocks have propelled...

Aid for the Poorest? The distribution and maldistribution of international development assistance

Bob Baulch (2003)

Working Paper No. 35
This paper examines the extent to which the distribution of development assistance is directed towards the poorest countries. Using the latest cross-country data available from the OECD and the World Bank, aid concentration curves are constructed for the major bilateral and multilateral donors. The...

Annotated Bibliography: Poverty and Chronic Poverty in Uganda CPRC Annotated Bibliographies No 2

Isaac Shinyekwa with Chris Taylor (2003)

Annotated Bibliography
In this annotated bibliography, resources on poverty and chronic poverty in rural Uganda are organised into the following sections: Education, Health, National debt and poverty, Poverty in policy perspective, Measuring and characterising poverty, Poverty trends in Uganda, Poverty in institutional...

Poverty and Chronic Poverty in Uganda. CPRC Annotated Bibliographies No 2

Isaac Shinyekwa with Chris Taylor (2003)

Working Paper No. 34
In this annotated bibliography, resources on poverty and chronic poverty in rural Uganda are organised into the following sections: Education, Health, National debt and poverty, Poverty in policy perspective, Measuring and characterising poverty, Poverty trends in Uganda, Poverty in institutional...

What is the impact of non-contributory pensions on poverty? Estimates from Brazil and South Africa

Armando Barrientos (2003)

Working Paper No. 33
This paper considers the impact of cash transfer programmes for the old in Brazil and South Africa on poverty among households with older people. Using datasets collected specifically for the purpose, the paper constructs conditional and unconditional estimates of the poverty reduction capacity of...

The Intrahousehold Disadvantages Framework: A Framework for the Analysis of Intra-household Difference and Inequality

Vincent J. Bolt and Kate Bird (2003)

Working Paper No. 32
The purpose of this paper is to introduce the IDF (Intrahousehold Disadvantages Framework) which provides researchers with a set of practical tools to analyse intra-household differentiation. We feel that this is necessary if researchers are to be able to present more accurate findings. Numerous...

Bureaucratic Effects: 'Weberian' State Structures and Poverty Reduction

Jeffrey Henderson, David Hulme, Hossein Jalilian and Richard Phillips (2003)

Working Paper No. 31
Work developed broadly within the Weberian tradition has argued, for a long time, that there is a link between effective bureaucratic institutions and economic development. In a widely cited article, Evans and Rauch (1999) have demonstrated that there is a strong relationship between a national...

Globalization, the International Poverty Trap and Chronic Poverty in the Least Developed Countries

Charles Gore (2003)

Working Paper No. 30
The argument of this paper is founded on an analytical perspective that can be summarized through three basic propositions. Firstly, the phenomenon of chronic poverty is best analysed through examination of the nature of poverty traps. Secondly, the causes of poverty can be identified at different...

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