CPRC - Chronic Poverty Reports Area

Background Papers

The CPRC commissioned fifty background papers in the development of the second Chronic Poverty Report. They provide a wealth of data, ideas and material related to the Report. (However, they do not necessarily represent the views of the CPRC or the authors of the Report.)

These papers will be available for download below, organised by theme; and will also be available on our searchable publications database. For key to Funders see bottom of page.

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Poverty Reduction Strategies and Chronic Poverty

Author	Title	Funder	Status
Baliscan, Arsenio M.	An analysis of chronic poverty and Poverty Reduction Strategies in the Philippines	6	Available soon
Brown, Taylor and Teshome, Amdissa	Implementing policies for chronic poverty in Ethiopia	1	Available
Cammack, Diana	Chronic poverty in Papua New Guinea	6	Available
Clarke, Matthew	A qualitative analysis of chronic poverty and poverty reduction strategies in Solomon Islands	6	Available
Floquet, Anne	Benin Poverty Reduction Strategy and chronic poverty: A desk review	1	Available soon
Grant, Ursula and Marcus, Rachel	Chronic poverty and PRSPs – A desk study	1	Available
Shinyekwa, Issac and Hickey, Sam	PRS review: Uganda case study	1	Available
Tuan, Pham Anh	Vietnam country case study	1	Available
Wells, Adrian	Chronic poverty in Indonesia: National overview paper	6	Available soon
Wiggins, Steve	Poverty Reduction Strategy Review Country case: Nicaragua	1	Available
Yamauchi, Tamahi	PRS assessment on chronic poverty in Tanzania – focusing on health and HIV/AIDS sectors	5	Available
Zohir, Sajjad; Harun, Abantee; Farid, Naser; and Huq, Iftekharul	Implementation of policies for reducing chronic poverty – PRS country study: Bangladesh	1	Available

The Politics of What Works

Author	Title	Funder	Status
Hickey, Sam	The politics of what works in reducing chronic poverty: A synthesis report	7	Available (CPRC Working Paper 91)
Hossein, Naomi	The politics of what works: The case of the Vulnerable Group Development Programme in Bangladesh	7	Available (CPRC Working Paper 92)
Kumar, Anand and Anand, Navneet	Poverty target programs for the elderly In India with special reference to National Old Age Pension Scheme, 1995	7	Available
Massingarela, Claudio and Nhate, Virgulino	The politics of what works: A case study of food subsidies and the Bolsa-Escola in Mozambique	7	Available
Pelham, Lissa	A review of the old age social pensions in Lesotho, Namibia and South Africa	7	Available soon

Economic Growth and Chronic Poverty

Author	Title	Funder	Status
Anderson, Edward	Growth incidence analysis for non-income welfare indicators: evidence from Ghana and Uganda	2	Available
Bhide, Shashanka and Mehta, Aasha Kapur	Economic growth and poverty dynamics in India	3	Available soon
Cabral, Lidia	Growth policies and chronic poverty in Vietnam since Doi Moi – Literature review	3	Available soon
Cabral, Lidia	Growth policies and chronic poverty in Ethiopia during the 1990s	3	Available soon
Dercon, Stefan; Hoddinott, John; and Woldehanna, Tassew	Growth and poverty in rural Ethiopia: Evidence from 15 communities 1994-2004	3	Available
Grant, Ursula	Pro-poor growth and the poorest	1	Available
Grant, Ursula	Urban economic growth and chronic poverty	3	Available
McKay, Andy	Growth and the poorest: A panel data analysis for Uganda	2	Available
McKay, Andy; Shepherd, Andrew; and Prowse, Martin	Scope for increasing the participation of the chronic poor in economic growth	3	Available
Mosley, Paul and Suleiman, Abrar	Agricultural policies against severe and chronic poverty: Cross-section analysis and country case studies for sub-Saharan Africa	4	Available soon
Mosley, Paul; Suleiman, Abrar; and Chiripanhura, Blessing	Escape routes from the rural poverty trap: evidence from three African countries	3,4	Available soon
Prowse, Martin	Agricultural growth and chronic poverty reduction in Malawi: the organisation and operation of key markets	3	Available soon
Prowse, Martin and Bird, Kate	Economic contraction, markets and the chronically poor in Zimbabwe	3	Available soon
Shepherd, Andrew and Prowse, Martin	Agricultural growth, poverty dynamics and markets	3	Available
Ssewanyana, Sarah N. and Bategeka, Lawrence	Chronic poverty and economic growth in Uganda: the role of markets	3	Available
Suleiman, Abrar and Mosley, Paul	The poverty-reducing effect of increased food crop productivity in Ethiopia: A multi-market analysis	4	Available soon
Thang, Nguyen; Trung, Le Dang; Dat, Vu Hoang; and Phuong, Nguyen Thu	Poverty, poverty reduction and poverty dynamics in Vietnam	3	Available
Wiggins, Steve	Growth and chronic poverty in Nicaragua	3	Available soon

Social Movements and Chronic Poverty

Author	Title	Funder	Status
Bebbington, Anthony	Social Movements and the politicization of chronic poverty policy	1	Available (CPRC Working Paper 63)
Mitlin, Diana	The role of collective action and urban social movements in reducing chronic urban poverty	1	Available (CPRC WP64)
Mitlin, Diana and Bebbington, Anthony	Social movements and chronic poverty across the urban-rural divide: concepts and experiences	1	Available (CPRC WP65)

Other Papers

Author	Title	Funder	Status
Anderson, Edward	Identifying chronically deprived countries: results from cluster analysis	6	Available (CPRC WP70)
Braunholtz, Tim	Policy responses to discrimination and their contribution to tackling chronic poverty	1	Available
Chimhowu, Admos	Tinkering on the fringes? Redistributive land reforms and chronic poverty in Southern Africa		Available soon
Chopra, Mickey; Neves, David; Tsai, Alexander; and Sanders, David	Health, health systems and chronic poverty	1	Available soon
Grant, Ursula	Health and poverty linkages: Perspectives of the chronically poor	2	Available
Grant, Ursula with Lwanga-Ntale, Charles and Barrientos, Armando	Research into policy processes: Bringing global evidence on social protection into local policy contexts	8	Available
Rose, Pauline and Dyer, Caroline	Chronic poverty and education: A review of the literature.	1	Available soon
Santibanez, Claudio	Review of integrated programmes tackling extreme and persistent poverty in Latin America	1	Available soon

Data Work

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Other Contributions

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Funders

1. CPRC core funding from the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID)

2. United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID)

3. United States Agency for International Development (USAID) (via BASIS Collaborative Research Support Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison).

4. Vienna Institute for Development and Cooperation (VIDC) and the Austrian Development Agency (ADA)

5. Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)

6. Australian Government’s AusAID

7. Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs

8. Overseas Development Institute (ODI)

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