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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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An overview of Chronic Poverty and Development Policy in Uganda
John Okidi and Gloria Mugambe (2002)
Working Paper No. 11
The paper highlights Uganda’s main antipoverty programs and uses consumption expenditure data of panel households to characterize chronic poverty by tracking households’ poverty statuses over time. Although the majority of households moved into and out of poverty during the 1990s, all...
Chronic Poverty and Older People in the Developing World
Amanda Heslop and Mark Gorman (2002)
Working Paper No. 10
The paper explores the relationship between old age and chronic poverty in the developing world, and the implications of this for achieving global targets for poverty reduction. For the majority of the world's older people, the meaning of old age is not a chronological definition but the changing...
Targeted Development Programmes for the Extreme Poor: Experiences from BRAC Experiments
Matin, Imran (2002)
PRCPB Working Paper
For the chronically poor, the various livelihood constraints are structured and interlocked in complex knots that fail to carry forward automatic induced impacts through interventions, such as microfinance, that work on untying important strategic knots. BRAC, a poverty-focussed NGO in Bangladesh...
Methodology for Identifying the Poorest at Local Level
Sen, Binayek; Begum, Sharifa (2002)
PRCPB Working Paper
This article argues that the extreme poor warrant specific analytical and policy focus. It attempts to identify the extreme poor in rural Bangladesh by devising sensitive targeting indicators that are effective in minimising leakage to the non-poor while ensuring broad coverage of the target group....
Chronic Poverty and Development Policy in Sri Lanka: Overview Study
Indra Tudawe (2001)
Working Paper No. 9
Sri Lanka is well known for achieving high levels of human development at relatively low levels of GDP per capita. Successive governments have invested heavily in education, health and welfare programmes, and this has been associated with the country achieving levels of life expectancy and literacy...
Frameworks for understanding the inter-generational transmission of poverty and well being in developing countries
Karen Moore (2001)
Working Paper No. 8
Initial work done by the Chronic Poverty Research Centre (CPRC) suggests that the tightest possible definition of chronic poverty would be intergenerationally transmitted (IGT) poverty. However, while this concept has been widely used in a 'developed' country (particularly American) context,...
Chronic Poverty in India: Overview Study
Aasha Kapur Mehta and Amita Shah (2001)
Working Paper No. 7
This paper attempts to summarise the current state of knowledge about chronic poverty in India, and identify an agenda for further research. An overview of the trends in incidence of income poverty in India is provided to place chronic poverty in context. Chronic poverty is viewed in terms of...
Violent Conflict, Poverty and Chronic Poverty
Jonathan Goodhand (2001)
Working Paper No. 6
The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the literatures on chronic poverty and conflict, map out current policy debates and identify areas for future research. It is estimated that one third of the world's population is exposed to armed conflict, and a disproportionate number of...
Livelihoods Research: Some Conceptual and Methodological Issues
Colin Murray (2001)
Working Paper No. 5
This paper offers a review of conceptual and methodological issues in the pursuit of livelihoods research, with particular reference to southern Africa. Disparate and partly overlapping frameworks of investigation are outlined, with an emphasis on three key questions. First, how is empirical...
Chronic Poverty and Disability
Rebecca Yeo (2001)
Working Paper No. 4
This working paper argues that disabled people are disproportionately amongst the poorest of the poor in all parts of the world, and that international development targets are unlikely to be met without including disabled people. Due to the severe exclusion of disabled people from all areas of...
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