Institute for Development Policy and  Management

Contacts:

Tony Addison CPRC Associate Director
44 (0) 161 275 2824 (Tel)

Armando Barrientos, Theme Coordinator, Insecurity, risk and vulnerability
44 (0) 161 275 2811 (Tel)

Jayne Hewitt CPRC Finance Officer
44 (0)161 275 2825 (Tel)

Sam Hickey Theme Co-Coordinator, Adverse Incorporation and Social Exclusion
44 (0)161 275 2806 (Tel)

David Hulme CPRC Associate Director
Theme Coordinator, Conceptualisation of Poverty Dynamics and Persistent Poverty
44 (0)161 275 2803 (Tel)

David Lawson 44 (0)161 275 0415 (Tel)

Diana Mitlin 44 (0)161 275 0810 (Tel)

Karen Moore Research Associate, Empirical Approaches to the Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty and Conceptualisation of Poverty Dynamics and Persistent Poverty themes
44 (0)161 275 0809 (Tel)

Denise Redston Personal Assistant to David Hulme and Tony Addison
44 (0)161 275 2810 (Tel)

Contact details:

Institute for Development Policy and Management (IDPM)
School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester
Humanities Bridgeford Street
Manchester M13 9PL
UNITED KINGDOM

44(0)161 275 2800 (Tel-switchboard)
44 (0)161 273 8828 (Fax)

www.sed.manchester.ac.uk/idpm

Publications

CPRC Working Papers

• CPRC WP#108: Scott, L. (2008) Climate variability and climate change: implications for chronic poverty
• CPRC WP#104: Woolcock, M. (2008) Toward an Economic Sociology of Chronic Poverty: Enhancing the Rigor and Relevance of Social Theory.
• CPRC WP#91: Hickey, S. (2007) The Politics of What Works in Reducing Chronic Poverty - A synthesis report for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Netherlands.
• CPRC WP#86: Smith, B. with Hickey, S. Annotated bibliography on social exclusion, adverse incorporation and chronic poverty (CPRC Annotated Bibliographies No 5).
• CPRC WP#81: Hickey, S. and du Toit, A. (2007) Adverse incorporation, social exclusion and chronic poverty.
• CPRC WP#58: Chimhowu, A. O. (2005) Tinkering on the fringes? Land reforms, chronic poverty and poverty in Southern Africa.
• CPRC WP#57: Moore, K. (2005) Thinking about youth poverty through the lenses of chronic poverty, life-course poverty and inter-generational poverty.
• CPRC WP#45: McKay, A., Baulch, B., Hisarciklilar, M., and Lawson, D. (2004). How many chronically poor people are there? Some preliminary estimates.
• CPRC WP#43: Sen, B. and Hulme, D. (2004) The State of the Poorest 2004/2005: Chronic Poverty in Bangladesh - Tales of Ascent, Descent, Marginality and Persistence - Overview.
• CPRC WP#41: Lawson, D. (2004) The Influence of Ill Health on Chronic and Transient Poverty: Evidence from Uganda.
• CPRC WP#38: Lawson, D., McKay, A., and Okidi, J. (2004). Poverty Persistence and Transitions in Uganda: A Combined Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis.
• CPRC WP#37: Hickey, S. (2003) The Politics of Staying Poor in Uganda.
• CPRC WP#33: Barrientos, A. (2003) What is the impact of non-contributory pensions on poverty? Estimates from Brazil and South Africa
• CPRC WP#31: Henderson, J.; Hulme, D.; Jalilian, H. and Phillips, R. (2003) Bureaucratic Effects: 'Weberian' State Structures and Poverty Reduction .
• CPRC WP#29: Mitlin, D. (2003) The Economic and Social Processes Influencing the Level and Nature of Chronic Poverty in Urban Areas.
• CPRC WP#23: Bracking, S. (2003) The Political Economy of Chronic Poverty
• CPRC WP#22: Hulme, D. (2003) Thinking 'Small' and the Understanding of Poverty: Maymana and Mofizul's Story.
• CPRC WP#16: Kothari, U. (2002) Chronic Poverty and Migration
• CPRC WP#15: McKay, A. and Lawson, D. (2002) Chronic Poverty: A Review of Current Quantitative Evidence.
• CPRC WP#14: Woodhouse, P. (2002) Natural Resource Management and Chronic Poverty in Sub Saharan Africa: An Overview.
• CPRC WP#13: Bird, K., Hulme, D., Moore, K. and Shepherd, A. (2002) Chronic Poverty and Remote Rural Areas
• CPRC WP#8: Moore, K. (2001) Frameworks for understanding the intergenerational transmission of poverty and well-being in developing countries
• CPRC WP#5: Murray, C. (2001) Livelihoods Research: Some Conceptual and Methodological Issues.
• CPRC WP#2: Hulme, D., Moore, K. and Shepherd, A. (2001) Chronic poverty: meanings and analytical frameworks.
• CPRC WP#1: Hickey, S. with Moore, K. (2001) Chronic Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia: A select annotated bibliography with special reference to remote rural areas. (CPRC Annotated Bibliographies No 1)

Journal articles

• Barrientos, A. and Hulme, D. (2005) Chronic Poverty and Social Protection: Introduction. European Journal of Development Research, 17/1.
• Barrientos, A., Hulme, D. and Shepherd, A. (2005) Can Social Protection Tackle Chronic Poverty? European Journal of Development Research, 17/1.
• Mitlin, D. (2005) Editor's introduction: chronic poverty in urban areas. Environment & Development, 17/2.
• Conticini, A. (2005) Urban livelihoods from children's perspectives: protecting and promoting assets on the streets of Dhaka.Environment & Development, 17/2.
• Hickey, S.; and Bracking, S. (2005). Exploring the Politics of Chronic Poverty: From Representation to a Politics of Justice? World Development, 33/6, June 2005: 851 - 865
• Green, M.; Hulme, D. (2005). From correlates and characteristics to causes: thinking about poverty from a chronic poverty perspective. World Development, 33/6, June 2005: 867 - 879
• Bebbington, A. (2005). Donor-NGO relations and representations of livelihood in nongovernmental aid chains. World Development, 33/6, June 2005: 937 - 950
• Hickey, S. (2005). The politics of staying poor: exploring the political space for poverty reduction in Uganda. World Development, 33/6, June 2005: 995 - 1009
• Bracking, S. (2005). Guided Miscreants: Liberalism, Myopias, and the Politics of Representation. World Development, 33/6, June 2005: 1011 - 1024
• Barrientos, A. and Hulme, D. (2005) Chronic Poverty and Social Protection: Introduction. European Journal of Development Research, 17/1.
• Barrientos, A., Hulme, D. and Shepherd, A. (2005) Can Social Protection Tackle Chronic Poverty? European Journal of Development Research, 17/1.
• Mitlin, D. (2005) Guest editorial. International Planning Studies, 10/1.
• Mitlin, D. (2005) Understanding chronic poverty in urban areas. International Planning Studies, 10/1.
• Hulme, D. (2004) Thinking 'Small' and the Understanding of Poverty: Maymana and Mofizul's story. Journal of Human Development, 5/2.
• Hulme, D. (2003) Chronic Poverty and Development Policy: An Introduction. World development, 31/3.
• Hulme, D. and Shepherd, A. (2003) Conceptualizing Chronic Poverty. World development, 31/3.
• Harper, C., Marcus, R. and Moore, K. (2003). Enduring poverty and the conditions of childhood: lifecourse and intergenerational poverty transmissions. World development, 31/3.
• Yeo, R. and Moore, K. (2003). Including disabled people in poverty reduction work: 'nothing about us, without us'. World development , 31/3.
• McKay, A. and Lawson, D. (2003) Assessing the Extent and Nature of Chronic Poverty in Low Income Countries: Issues and Evidence. World Development, 31/3..
• Kothari, U. (2003) Staying put and staying poor? Journal of International Development, 15/5.
• Barrientos, A., Gorman, M. and Heslop, A. (2003) Old Age Poverty in Developing Countries: Contributions and Dependence in Later Life. World Development, 31/3.
• Barrientos, A. (2002) Old age, poverty and social investment. Journal of International Development, 14/8.

Conference papers

• Barrientos, A. (2005) For 'Can low income countries effectively deliver cash transfers which impact on child poverty?' session of Social protection – making child poverty history seminar series.
• Hulme, D. and Clark, D. (2005) Towards A Unified Framework for Understanding the Depth, Breadth and Duration of Poverty. The 5th International Conference on the Capability Approach: Knowledge and Public Action, UNESCO, Paris, September 11-14.
• Hulme, D. and Clark, D. (2005) Towards A Unified Framework for Understanding the Depth, Breadth and Duration of Poverty. UNDP-International Poverty Centre Conference on the Many Dimensions of Poverty, Brasilia, August 29-31.
• Hulme, D. and McKay, A. (2005) Identifying and Understanding Chronic Poverty - Beyond Monetary Measures. UNDP-International Poverty Centre Conference on the Many Dimensions of Poverty, Brasilia, August 29-31.
• Moore, K. (2005). Thinking about youth poverty through the lenses of chronic poverty, life-course poverty and inter-generational poverty. Childhoods 2005 Conference, University of Oslo, Norway, June 29 - July 3.
• Hulme, D. and McKay, A. (2005) Identifying and Understanding Chronic Poverty - Beyond Monetary Measures. WIDER Conference on the Future of Development Economics, Helsinki, June 17-18.
• Mitlin, D. and Patel, S. (2005) Re-interpreting the rights-based approach - a grassroots perspective on rights and development. The Winners and Losers from Rights-Based Approaches to Development Conference, IDPM, February 21-22.
• Hickey, S. et al. NGOs, social movements and paralegal extension in North West Cameroon: from clientelism to citizenship at the margins? The Winners and Losers from Rights-Based Approaches to Development Conference, IDPM, February 21-22.
• Mitlin, D. and d'Cruz, C. (2005) Shack/slum Dwellers International: one experience of the contribution of membership organisations to pro-poor urban development. Membership Based Organizations of the Poor: Theory, Experience and Policy, jointly organised by Cornell University, SEWA and WIEGO, Ahmedabad, India, January 17-21.
• Moore, K. (2004). Chronic, life-course and intergenerational poverty, and South-East Asian youth. Paper commissioned by UNDESA-Youth, presented to UN Workshop on Youth in Poverty in South-East Asia , Yogyakarta, 2 August 2004. (Opens pdf in new window).

Living on the margins - Vulnerability, social exclusion and the state in the informal economy, Cape Town, 26-28 March 2007

• Barrientos, A. Linking informality and chronic poverty.
• Bracking, S. and Sachikonye, L. Remittances, poverty reduction and the informalisation of household wellbeing in Zimbabwe.
• Mitlin, D. A Class Act: Rules, regulations and rituals and the creation, maintenance and reduction of poverty.

Staying Poor: Chronic Poverty And Development Policy, IDPM, April 7-9, 2003.

• Barrientos, A. and Shepherd, A. ( 2003) Chronic Poverty and Social Protection.
• Bracking, S. Imagining Politics as a Process of Redistributive Social Justice: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly .
• Hickey, S. The Politics of Staying Poor in Uganda
• Kothari, U. and Hulme, D. Narratives, Stories and Tales: Understanding Poverty Dynamics through Life Histories
• Lawson, D. Uganda: The Influence of Health on Chronic and Transitory Poverty
• Lawson, D., McKay, A. and Okidi, J. Uganda: Explaining the Dynamics and Characteristics behind Chronic Poverty.
• Mitlin, D. The Economic and Social Processes influencing the Level and Nature of Chronic Poverty in Urban Areas
• Bebbington, A. NGO Geographies, Livelihood Geographies and the "non-viable" poor in the Andes .
• Clark, D. A. and Qizilbash, M. Core Poverty and Extreme Vulnerability in South Africa
• DeJong, J. Capabilities, Reproductive Health and Well-being
• Woodhouse, P. Perceptions of poverty among local elites in Uganda

Books, reports and chapters

• Barrientos, A. and Hulme, D. (eds.) (2008) Social Protection for the Poor and Poorest - Concepts, Policies and Politics. Palgrave MacMillan.
• Hulme, D. and Moore, K. (2008) Assisting the Poorest in Bangladesh: Learning from BRAC’s ‘Targeting the Ultra Poor Programme’. In Barrietos and Hulme.
• Hickey, S. (2008) Conceptualising the Politics of Social Protection in Africa. In Barrientos and Hulme.
• Moore, K. (2005) Chronic, life-course and intergenerational poverty. Chapter 3 of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) Programme on Youth's World Youth Report 2005 - Young people today, and in 2015. 
• Grant, U., Hulme, D., Moore, K. and A. Shepherd (2004). The Chronic Poverty Report 2004-05. Manchester: IDPM/Chronic Poverty Research Centre.
• Moore, K. and Hulme, D. (2004). 'Chronic poverty'. In T. Forsyth (ed.) The Routledge Encyclopaedia of International Development. London/New York: Routledge.
• Hulme, D. (forthcoming), 'Chronic poverty'. In D. A. Clark (ed.) The Elgar Companion to Development Studies. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

Other publications

• Prowse, M. and Chimhowu, A. (2007) Making agriculture work for the poor. ODI NAtural Resource Perspectives 111.
• Barrientos, A., Hulme, D. and Moore, K. (2006) Social Protection for the Poorest: Taking a Broader View. UNDP International Poverty Centre's Poverty In Focus, June 2006, 6-8.
• Barrientos, A. and Smith, R. (2005) Social Assistance in Low Income Countries Database.
• Barrientos, A. (2004) Financing Social Protection. Paper commissioned by DFID's Reaching the Very Poorest team.
• Hickey, S. (2005) Understanding the politics of challenging chronic poverty: some conceptual approaches. In Policy Influence and Media Engagement Resource Pack.
• Annotated Listing of Panel Datasets in Developing and Transitional Countries (pdf) Compiled by Lawson, D., McKay, A. and Moore, K.

Papers commissioned by DFID's Reaching the Very Poorest team

• Grant, U., Hulme, D., Moore, K. and A. Shepherd (2004). How Can Development Policy Reach and Assist The Poorest? - Knowledge Paper and Resource Annex.
• Grant, U. and Hulme, D. (2004). Service Delivery and the Poorest.
• Hickey, S. (2004). Social and political change.