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CPAN is proud to announce the panel discussion "Anti-discrimination measures: a path out of poverty. Can anti-discrimination measures help getting out of poverty? Results of phase 1 of an evaluation in lower- and middle-income countries". The event will be held at the Overseas Development Institute, in London, UK, on the 16th of June 2016.
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Read MoreHosted by the Asian Development Bank at its headquarters in Manila and funded by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), this two-day conference was a great opportunity to bring together policy makers, renowned economists, government officials and members of the civil society to exchange experiences and points of view on the importance of including pro-poorest growth policies into the SDGs.
Read MoreAs part of ODI’s research into poverty trajectories, conducted for USAID through the LEO activity, Lucy Scott, ODI Research Fellow, has been collecting life histories from female and male household heads in Kole District in northern Uganda. Life histories can reveal important information about the resilience (or lack thereof) of individuals and their households.
Read MoreIt is not enough to ask that no one be left behind; we must go a step further and specifically ensure that no one falls behind. This distinction may appear trivial at first glance, but it is an important one. It ensures that households that move above the poverty line do not regress or “backslide” into poverty, but instead sustain their escapes.
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Read MoreA key finding of CPAN’s 2014-5 Chronic Poverty Report was that pro-poorest economic growth is necessary to achieve the first Sustainable Development Goal and more generally to improve all poverty dynamics. An investigation of what policy interventions are required to achieve pro-poorest growth, whether these differ from previous policy prescriptions and whether they differ for countries at different stages of transformation and engaged in different patterns of economic growth is needed. For this reason CPAN has embarked in a research project seeking to answer these questions.
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