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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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Call for Papers: International Conference on Social Protection for the Poorest in Africa - Learning from Experience

Charles Lwanga-Ntale and Armando Barrientos (2008)

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: SOCIAL PROTECTION FOR THE POOREST IN AFRICA- LEARNING FROM EXPERIENCE
8-10th September 2008, Kampala, Uganda
Development Research & Training, the Chronic Poverty Research Centre and the Brooks World Poverty Institute will co-host this international...

Social Protection for the Poor and Poorest - Concepts, Policies and Politics.

Armando Barrientos and David Hulme (eds) (2008)

Book
Social protection is fast becoming one of the most important themes in development policy. This collection examines the political processes shaping the formulation of social protection policies; compares the key conceptual frameworks available for analysing social protection; and provides a...

Growth incidence analysis for non-income welfare indicators: evidence from Ghana and Uganda

Edward Anderson (2008)

CPR 2008-09 Background Paper
Growth incidence analysis involves calculating the amount of growth in some welfare-indicator (e.g. income, life expectancy) at each quantile (e.g. quartile, decile,or percentile) of the distribution of that indicator. This information, and its graphical representation in the form of a growth...

Call for Papers - Eradicating Chronic Poverty in India: Policy Issues and Challenges

CPRC India (2008)

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Ugandan boy transporting heavy load of bananas. © Kate Bird.



Women brewing beer, rural Zimbabwe. © Kate Bird.

Policy Responses to Discrimination and their Contribution to Tackling Chronic Poverty

Tim Braunholtz-Speight (2008)

CPR 2008-09 Background Paper
This paper is part of a stream of work for the Second Chronic Poverty Report (CPR2) on social change, policy and chronic poverty. It reviews the available literature to attempt to draw lessons on how anti-discrimination policies can help reduce chronic poverty, and what the limits to an...

Implementing policies for chronic poverty reduction in Ethiopia

Taylor Brown and Amdissa Teshome (2008)

CPR 2008-09 Background Paper
This study explores the implementation of policies that respond to chronic poverty in Ethiopia. It demonstrates that Ethiopia’s two PRSPs contain a range of policies which are either inclusive of the poorest or are specifically targeted at addressing the roots of chronic poverty and...

Vietnam country study

Pham Anh Tuan (2008)

CPR 2008-09 Background Paper
As part of the Chronic Poverty Report 2008-09, the Viet Nam case study attempts to look at the various steps of implementation of policies meant to serve the chronically poor. Specifically, the report will provide a thorough analysis of the two most important programmes. The first is the National...

PRS assessment of chronic poverty in Tanzania: focussing on health and the HIV/AIDS sector

Tamahi Yamauchi (2008)

CPR 2008-09 Background Paper
This research addresses to find out how PRS policy implementation through focusing on basic health services and HIV/AIDS care and prevention has reached chronically poor and what the drivers / obstacles toward it in Tanzania are. This focus has been chosen because of the recent stagnation in...

The Chronic Poverty Report 2008-09

CPRC (2008)

Chronic Poverty Report
This report is about the estimated 320 to 443 million people who live trapped in chronic poverty - people who will remain poor for much or all of their lives and whose children are likely to inherit their poverty. The chronically poor experience multiple deprivations, including hunger,...

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...